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Ponera pilosa Smith

Diagnostic Description

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Male. Length 7 lines.-Black: covered with a fine, thin, changeable, silky pile; anterior margin of the clypeus rounded; the palpi pale testaceous; antennae three-fourths of the length of the body. Thorax: the disk slightly pubescent; the metathorax shining; wings fusco-hyaline; the tarsi rufo-testaceous. Abdomen elongate and cylindrical; the apical margin of the first segment constricted; the node incrassate, subquadrate, rounded above.

Hab. Brazil (Villa Nova).

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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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