Meranoplus puncticeps (Smith, F. 1876)
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Meranoplus
Name
Meranoplus puncticeps Smith, F., 1876 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Meranoplus puncticeps Smith, F., 1876, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 9: 610-611.
Description
Worker. - Length 2 lines. Black and shining; the head subovate, punctured; antennae pubescent, the apex testaceous; the mandibles and a small space between the antennae striated. Thorax oblong, deeply constricted at the base of the metathorax, which is longitudinally striated, deeply emarginate, and with two longish acute spines; the anterior portion of the thorax strongly longitudinally punctate-striate; the femora much attenuated at their base and swollen in the middle; the apical joints of the tarsi testaceous. Abdomen ovate, longitudinally striated at the base; the nodes of the peduncle deeply striated, the first narrower than the second, both sub-ovate. (Fig. 10, ☿. Pl. XI.)
Distribution
Hab. - Para.
Discussion
This is very probably the worker of Meranoplus attenuatusHNS; both are from the same locality, and were received at the same time.
Taxon Treatment
- Smith, F.; 1876: Descriptions of new species of Cryptoceridae, belonging to the genera Cryptocerus, Meranoplus and Cataulacus., Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 9: 610-611. doi
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