Polyrhachis constructor Smith 1857

Polyrhachis constructor Smith, 1857a PDF: 60 (q.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak). Indomalaya. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

[Unjustified emendation of spelling to constructrix: Schulz, 1906 PDF: 156.].Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrmatopa): Donisthorpe, 1932c PDF: 445.Unplaced to subgenus: Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 137; Dorow, 1995 PDF: 65.Status as species: Mayr, 1886c PDF: 357; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 260; Emery, 1896j PDF: 378 (in list); Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 137; Emery, 1925d PDF: 209; Donisthorpe, 1932c PDF: 445; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 346; Dorow, 1995 PDF: 65; Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 41.

Female. Length 4 1/4 lines.-Black: head and thorax opake; legs and abdomen shining. Thorax ovate, the prothorax slightly produced laterally, forming a small tubercle, the metathorax with two short, stout, erect teeth, or spines; wings subhyaline, the nervures rufo-testaceous. Abdomen: the node of the peduncle incrassate, with three short, stout, acute spines. Abdomen subglobose.

Hab. Sarawak. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)

P. niger; thorace ovato, spinis duabus minutis antice armato; abdominis squamula spinis duabus armata.

Female. Length 3 1/2 lines. Black: finely rugose; the palpi pale testaceous; the mandibles obscurely rufo-piceous; the apex of the antennae pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax: the anterior angles of the prothorax acute; the metathorax not toothed; the apex truncate, the truncation finely rugose; wings subhyaline, faintly yellow; the nervures pale testaceous. Abdomen globose; the scale quadrate, with two very stout, short, curved spines above; the insect is very thinly covered with a fine short silky ashy pile, most apparent on the abdomen.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

Polyrhachis constructor é uma espécie de formiga do gênero Polyrhachis, pertencente à subfamília Formicinae.