Published December 31, 1861 | Version v1
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Polyrhachis chaonia

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Description

19. Polyrhachis chaonia.

P. niger, pube pallide aurea vestitus; thorace bidentata; petioli squamula bidentata; femoribus tibiisque fer-rugineis; alis fusco-hyalinis.

Female. Length 4 lines. Black, and clothed with a cinereous pubescence, which has a pale golden lustre, particularly on the head and thorax; that on the abdomen is more inclining to grey, but has a golden tint in some lights; the mandibles black. Thorax armed in front with two short acute spines; the legs ferruginous, with the tarsi black; wings fusco-hyaline, nervures testaceous. Abdomen globose; the scale of the peduncle with two short stout spines. (Pl. I. fig. 18.)

Hab. Gilolo.

Notes

Published as part of Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., pp. 36-48 in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6 on page 42

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Biodiversity

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