Taxonomic history
Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrmatopa): Donisthorpe, 1932c PDF: 445.Female. Length 4 lines.-Black: the antennae, mandibles, legs, and base of the abdomen, ferruginous. Thorax elongateovate; wings subhyaline and iridescent, the nervures testaceous; the coxae black. Abdomen globose, the scale of the peduncle with two stout, divergent spines above, which curve slightly backwards.
Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)
P. niger; antennis mandibulis pedibusque ferrugineis, abdominis squamula spinis duabus longis armata.
Female. Length 4 lines. Black: the antennae and mandibles ferruginous. Thorax elongate-ovate; wings subhyaline and iridescent, the nervures testaceous; the legs ferruginous, the coxae black. Abdomen: the base more or less ferruginous; the scale with two stout divergent spines above, which curve slightly backwards.
Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).
