Published December 31, 1858 | Version v1
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Polyrhachis bihamata

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Description

1. Polyrhachis bihamata. Pl. IV. fig. 19. B.M.

Formica bihamata, Drury, Ins. ii. pl. 38. f. 7, 8 [[worker]].

Fabr. Syst. Ent.394.21; Ent. Syst. ii.361.49; Syst. Piez, 411, 66.

Sulz. Gesch. Ins. t. 27. f. 19.

Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 499.

Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 127.

Polyrhachis bihamatus, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 59.

Hab. India; Sumatra; Borneo.

The specimens received from Borneo are much smaller and of a paler colour than those from India; there is also a slight difference in the form of the curved spines which arm the node of the abdomen, being parallel to each other full half of their length, whilst in examples from India the spines diverge from their base.

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 page 58

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Biodiversity

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