Polyrhachis aciculatus
- Dataset
- Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae.
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Formicidae
- genus
- Polyrhachis
- species
- Polyrhachis aciculatus
description
Worker. Length 2 1 / 4 lines. - Head and thorax obscurely purple, abdomen bright purple. Head and thorax above, longitudinally rugose; the mandibles short and stout, obliquely truncated at the apex, the truncation with four short teeth; the mandibles longitudinally striated, their apex obscurely rufo-piceous; the head and scape of the antennae sprinkled with longish black hairs. Thorax slightly convex above; the division between the meso- and metathorax marked by a deep suture, that between the pro- and mesothorax slightly marked; the thorax narrowed to the base of the metathorax, the lateral margins of the latter rounded, all the margins crenulated; the thorax and legs sprinkled with erect black hairs; the scale of the abdomen incrassate, prolonged laterally into an acute spine, the abdomen sprinkled with fine black, erect hairs.
distribution
Hab. Philippine Islands.
Name
- Homonyms
- Polyrhachis aciculatus