Published December 31, 1857 | Version v1
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Polyrhachis dives

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Description

19. Polyrhachis dives.

P. niger, aureo-sericeo vestitus; thorace spinis acutis antice et postice armatis; squama quadrata spinis duabus longis curvatis.

Worker. Length 2 1/2 lines. Black: clothed with pale golden pubescence; the thorax with two short curved spines in front, and two of about the same length at its posterior margin; the scale of the abdomen compressed, square in front, and having two long spines which curve backwards; the pubescence on the head and thorax with an obscure. golden tinge; the legs without spines or pubescence; the calcaria pale testaceous.

Hab. Singapore.

Notes

Published as part of Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., pp. 42-88 in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2 on page 64

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Polyrhachis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
dives
Taxon rank
species