Heptacondylus arachnoides, Smith

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 72-73

1. Heptacondylus arachnoides .

H. capite thoraceque laevissimis nitidis rufo-testaceis ferrugineo-subnebulosis; abdomine obscure rufopiceo nitido; pedibus elongatis gracilibus pubescentibus.

Female. Length 4 1/2 lines. Head and thorax rufo-piceous, with dark ferruginous stains on the vertex, scutellum, and metathorax posteriorly; also two longitudinal lines of the same colour on the disk of the mesothorax; the abdomen very dark rufo-piceous, with the three apical segments pale rufo-testaceous; the entire insect very smooth and shining. The mandibles produced, with three black teeth at the apex, and one on the inner margin towards the apex; the antennae pubescent; the thorax with scattered pale pubescence; the wings flavo-hyaline, the nervures pale testaceous; the legs elongate, with the apex of the joints and the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous; thickly covered with erect pale pubescence. Abdomen covered with pale pubescence, the nodes of the abdomen dark rufo-piceous, globose, and each having a distinct petiole; the petioles pale rufo-testaceous. Worker. Length 2 3/4 lines. Dark rufo-fuscous: the antennae, head beneath, mandibles and lower part of the face pale rufo-testaceous; antennae slender and elongate; head smooth and shining, not carinated. Thorax shining, the lateral margins traversed by a sharp carina; the metathorax elevated and armed with two acute spines; the legs elongate and slender, the coxae beneath, the base and apex of the femora and tibiae, and the tarsi, pale ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining, the apex pale ferruginous.

Hab; Borneo (Sarawak).