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Taxonomic History
1 subspecies
Taxonomic history
| [Locality in error, see Bolton, 1973b PDF: 352.]. |
| Emery, 1887a PDF: 238 (q.); Donisthorpe, 1942b PDF: 70 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1990b PDF: 763 (l.). |
| Combination in Polyrhachis: Smith, 1857a PDF: 59. |
| Senior synonym of Polyrhachis affinis Le Guillou: Mayr, 1872 PDF: 139; Dalla Torre, 1893: 259; of Polyrhachis minor Karavaiev, Polyrhachis perplexa, Polyrhachis tonsilis: Hung, 1970 PDF: 16; Kohout, 1998: 508. |
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Distribution
Physical Description
Diagnostic Description
Taxonomic Treatment
Formica bihamata, Drury , Ins. ii. pl. 38. f. 7, 8 [[worker]].
Fabr. Syst. Ent.394.21; Ent. Syst. ii.361.49; Syst. Piez, 411, 66.
Sulz. Gesch. Ins. t. 27. f. 19.
Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 499.
Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 127.
Polyrhachis bihamatus , Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 59.
Hab. India; Sumatra; Borneo.
The specimens received from Borneo are much smaller and of a paler colour than those from India; there is also a slight difference in the form of the curved spines which arm the node of the abdomen, being parallel to each other full half of their length, whilst in examples from India the spines diverge from their base.
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Formica bihamata, Drury , Ins. ii. pl. 38. f. 7, 8 [[worker]].
Fabr. Syst. Ent.394.21; Ent. Syst. ii.361.49; Syst. Piez, 411, 66.
Sulz. Gesch. Ins. t. 27. f. 19.
Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 499.
Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 127.
Polyrhachis bihamatus , Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 59.
Hab. India; Sumatra; Borneo.
The specimens received from Borneo are much smaller and of a paler colour than those from India; there is also a slight difference in the form of the curved spines which arm the node of the abdomen, being parallel to each other full half of their length, whilst in examples from India the spines diverge from their base.
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