Published December 31, 1979 | Version v1
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Formica fugax Latreille

Description

Genus Diplorhoptrum Mayr, 1855

[emend Baroni Urbani, 1968]

Diplorhoptrum Mayr, 1855:449.

Type-species: Formica fugax Latreille, 1798.

Worker. Small, pale to dark yellow; antennae 10 segmented with distinctly enlarged 2 segmented club. Second funicular segment not longer than broad. Eyes minute. Palp formula 2:2. Clypeus bicarinate with projecting teeth. Propodeum rounded unarmed, mesopropodeal furrow distinct, gaster oval with first segment larger than rest of gaster.

Queen. As worker but larger and darker with relatively massive alitrunk; eyes large and ocelli distinct. Fore wings with 1 cubital cell and 1 discoidal cell, radial cell open.

Male. Mandibles 3 toothed; antennae 12 segmented with first funicular segment swollen and globular. Propodeum unarmed. Volsella with broad band of minute pointed scales.

Notes

Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 64

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Formica
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
fugax
Taxon rank
species