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Ponera sulcata Smith

Diagnostic Description

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Worker. Length 3 lines.-Reddish-yellow, with the head black, the antennae and mandibles pale testaceous-yellow, and semitransparent; the head and thorax longitudinally furrowed or striated, the node of the peduncle and the second segment of the abdomen are similarly striated; the first segment with the striae curving inwards and uniting at the apex of the segment. The insect has a general semitransparent appearance, and in certain lights the furrows have a bright golden effulgence.

Hab. Brazil (Ega). (Coll. H. W. Bates.)

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Smith, F., Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., pp. -
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Smith, F.
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