Published December 31, 1858 | Version v1
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Polyrhachis femoratus

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Description

54. Polyrhachis femoratus. Pl. IV. fig. 46. B.M.

Worker. Length 4 lines.-Black: head and thorax opake, abdomen smooth and shining; the clypeus with a slight central carina; the extreme apex of the flagellum pale rufo-testaceous, the palpi ferruginous. Thorax compressed, slightly convex above, the lateral margins acute, distinctly divided into three portions by two transverse sutures, the anterior one curved; the metathorax truncate, the truncation smooth and shining, the lateral angles of its verge recurved; the coxae and femora ferruginous, the apex of the latter black. Abdomen: the scale subquadrate, and armed with four acute angular spines on its superior margin.

Hab. Australia (Melbourne).

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 73-74

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Biodiversity

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