Published December 31, 1858 | Version v1
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Atta penetrans

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Description

12. Atta penetrans. B.M.

Female. Length 4 lines. -Head and thorax black and shining, abdomen dark rufo-piceous. Head longitudinally striated; the mouth, clypeus and antennae ferruginous. Thorax elongateovate; the prothorax in front and the legs ferruginous, the striae on the disk intermixed with oblong punctures, a smooth impunctate line in the middle of the thorax in front; the metathorax truncate, the truncation smooth and shining; the wings subhyaline, with a fuscous line along the costal nervure, the apical margins of the wings with a fringe of fine white hairs. Abdomen; the apical margins of the segments rufo-piceous, the nodes of the peduncle globose and punctured.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. A. R. Wallace.)

Notes

Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on pages 164-165

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Atta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
penetrans
Taxon rank
species