Published December 31, 1858 | Version v1
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Ponera rubra

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Description

13. PONERA RUBRA.

Female. Length 3 1/2 lines.-Bright chestnut-red, smooth and impunctate: the head dusky before the ocelli; the mandibles serrated on their inner margin; the antennae as long as the thorax, slightly thickened towards their apex. Thorax widest in front, the disk slightly fuscous; the metathorax obliquely truncate, the truncation smooth and shining; the anterior margin of the prothorax rounded. The node of the peduncle rounded in front and truncate behind. Abdomen elongate-ovate, pointed and pubescent at the apex.

Hab. Singapore. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)

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 86

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Ponera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
rubra
Taxon rank
species