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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3.
Heptacondylus carinatus
.
H. obscure fusco-ferrugineus; capite thoraceque carinis irregularibus abbreviatis; metathorace spinis duabus longis armato.
Worker. Length 2 1/2 lines. Dark fusco-ferruginous, closely resembling
H. subcarinatus
, but with thicker antennae, and the joints shorter, the scape distinctly shorter and not so slender at the base; the head proportionably larger and much more strongly carinated; the thorax roughly carinated, and having longer and stouter spines; in other. respects agreeing with
H. subcarinatus
.
Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).
This may possibly be a form of
H. subcarinatus
, but the various differences pointed out appear to characterize a distinct species.
The insect which I am about to describe, although evidently belonging to the Poneridae, is of such a different and remarkable form, to any insect belonging to any of the sections of the genus
Ponera
, or any of the subgenera, that I propose to constitute a
new genus
for its reception; the abdomen of this singular species is formed, as it were, of three nodes, each being a little, longer and wider than the preceding.