Polyrhachis lycidas

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 : 43

22. Polyrhachis lycidas .

P. niger, pubescens; thorace supra deplanata, spinis duabus anterioribus; petioli squamula quadrispinosa.

Worker. Length 4 lines. Black with a thin silky cinereous pile, and sprinkled over with erect pale pubescence, which covers the antennae and legs also; the extreme tip of the antenna; pale rufo-testaceous, the palpi of the same colour; the head and thorax longitudinally striated; the prothorax with two stout acute spines; the margins of the thorax slightly elevated and extremely acute at the angles of the truncation of the metathorax, sub-dentate; the node of the peduncle with four acute spines. Abdomen globose, with the base truncate. (PL I. fig. 21.)

Hab. Celebes (Tondano).