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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9.
Formica badia
.
F. castaneo-fusca; thorace postice attenuata, abdominis squamula incrassata, abdomine ovato.
Worker. Length 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 lines. Chestnut-brown; head subovate; the eyes ovate, lateral, placed high on the head towards the vertex. Thorax rounded in front, compressed behind; the metathorax obliquely truncated; the scale of the abdomen subcorneal, incrassate, slightly rounded in front and truncate behind. Abdomen oblong-ovate, the apex fuscous.
Hab. Singapore; Borneo (Sarawak).
This species has much the appearance of a species of
Polyergus
; but the mandibles are toothed at the apex: the palpi I have not examined.