Meranoplus vestigator (Smith, F. 1876)
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Meranoplus
Name
Meranoplus vestigator Smith, F., 1876 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Meranoplus vestigator Smith, F., 1876, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 9: 610-610.
Description
Worker. - Length 2 3 / 4 lines. Head, thorax and legs brown-black; abdomen black. Head subglobose, shining, and with a few irregular carinae; antennae reddish-brown, palest at the apex. Thorax short, not longer than the head, longitudinally rugose-striate; the anterior margin arched, the lateral angles acute and subdentate; narrowed posteriorly; the metathorax with two long acute spines; the legs pale at the base of the femora; the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen heart-shaped, smooth, shining, and with scattered erect setae; the first node of the peduncle wedge-shaped, the second subglobose, both rugose. (Fig. 8, ☿. Pl. XI.)
Distribution
Hab. - Matabello, Eastern Archipelago.
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: 610-610. doi
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