Formica gigas Latreille, 1802
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Latreille, Pierre A. 1802. Histoire naturelle des fourmis, et recueil de mémoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignées, les faucheurs, et autres insectes. Théophile Barrois père, Paris.: i-xvi; 1-445; pls. i-xii.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Formicidae
- genus
- Camponotus
- species
- Camponotus gigas
Formica gigas
1. Formica gigasHNS ,
Latr. Hist. Nat. Forum. 105. pl. 2. f. 6 [[worker]]. Hab. Borneo, Malacca, Singapore.
Formica gigas
45. Formica gigasHNS . Pl. III. fig. 30. B.M.
Formica gigas, Latr.HNS Hist. Nat. Fourni. 105. pl. 2. f. 6. [[worker]] major.
Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 53.
Formica angusticollis, JerdonHNS , Madras Journ. Lit. and Sc. (1851) 120?
Worker minor. Length 8 lines.-More elongate and narrower than the larger worker; the head much narrower and not widened behind the eyes; the legs proportionably longer, the scale of the abdomen of the same conical form.
Female. Length 12 lines.-Of the same colour as the workers, the head scarcely as wide as the thorax; the eyes placed high on the head; the head elongate; the thorax ovate; the scutellum very convex; the scale of the abdomen deeply notched.
Male. Length 8 lines.-Blackish-brown: the coxae, femora, apical joints of the tarsi and the flagellum pale testaceous; thorax elongate-ovate, shining on the disk; wings hyaline, the anterior pair yellowish in front; the head much narrower than the thorax. Hab. India; Malacca; Singapore; Borneo.
Name
- Homonyms
- Formica gigas Latreille, 1802