Published December 31, 1858 | Version v1

Atta spinoda

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Description

18. Atta spinoda. B.M.

Female. Length 4 lines.-Black and shining, with the antennae, mandibles, legs, bead and thorax beneath, ferruginous; the vertex and the nodes of the peduncle obscure ferruginous; the head longitudinally striated. Thorax impunctate; the metathorax transversely striated, and armed with two short stout acute spines. Abdomen elongate, with the apical margins of the segments more or less rufo-piceous; the second node of the peduncle produced on each side into a short acute spine.

Hab. Australia (Adelaide).

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 166

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Atta
Species
spinoda
Taxon rank
species