Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace.
Author
Smith, F.
text
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology
1857
2
42
88
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journal article
2588
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Myrmica pellucida
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M. fusco-testacea; antennis pedibusque pallide testaceis, abdomine pellucido.
Worker, Length 1 1/4 line. Head and thorax dark fusco-testaceous; antennae and legs pale testaceous, nearly white; the divisions of the thorax distinctly marked, that between the meso- and meta-thorax rather deeply impressed; the abdomen of a transparent pale testaceous colour; the metathorax not spined.
Hab. Singapore.
Mr. Wallace, on a ticket attached to specimens of this insect, says, " House-ant: transparent abdomen: very active, but not destructive."