Myrmica pedestris

Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6, pp. 36-48 : 46

2. Myrmica pedestris

. M. fusco-nigra; capite thoraceque longitu-dinaliter striatis; antennis pedibusque ferrugineus: abdomine laevi, nitidissimo.

Female. Length 3 lines. Nigro-fuscous; the head and thorax longitudinally striated, the striae formed of rows of confluent punctures, the punctures finer on the head than on the thorax; the antennae, anterior margin of the head and the mandibles ferruginous, the legs ferruginous. The thorax transverse anteriorly; a narrow smooth shining impunctate line runs down the middle; the metathorax unarmed. Abdomen oblong-ovate, smooth, shining, and delicately punctured; the nodes of the peduncle smooth and impunctate, the first oblong, the second globose.

Hab. Celebes (Tondano).