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Diagnostic Description

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Ponera rufipes, Jerdon , Madras Journ. Lit. & Sci. (1851) p. 119?

Worker. Length 5-6 lines.-Black: the antennae, mandibles and legs ferruginous; head oblong, granulated and interspersed with shallow punctures; the face with a central impressed line, which extends from the anterior margin half-way towards the vertex. Thorax sculptured the same as the head, rounded in front, concavely truncate behind, and slightly narrowed posteriorly. Abdomen: the node punctured, its posterior margin serrated, and having a tooth beneath; the first and second segments longitudinally grooved, and the apical segments rufo-testaceous.

Hab. Malabar; Northern India; Hong Kong.

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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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