Formica detorquens (Walker, F. 1859)
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Formica
Name
Formica detorquens Walker, F., 1859 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Formica detorquens Walker, F., 1859, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4: 372-372.
Description
Faem. Nigra, scitissime punctata, capite parvo, antennis subfiliformibus corporis dimidio paullo longioribus, scapo longo, abdomine elliptico, pedibus breviusculis, tarsis testaceis, alis pallide cinercis, venis stigmateque testaceis. Female. Black, shining, very finely punctured. Head small, a little more than half the length of the body. Antennae nearly filiform; scape much more than half the length of the flagellum. Abdomen elliptical, hardly longer - or brooder than the thorax. Legs short; tarsi testaceous. Wings pale cinereous; veins and stigma testaceous; the former in structure much like those of Tapinoma erraticaHNS, but the discal areolet is open on the exterior side. Length of the body 13 / 4 line; of the wings 3 Hues.
Taxon Treatment
- Walker, F.; 1859: Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects., Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4: 372-372. doi
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