Descriptions - TL 8.55-4.5. At least four morphs.
Major - TL 8.55 mm, HL 2.5, HW 2.0, Head Depth 1.5, SL
1.15, PW 1.00, Petiole length 0.65. Alitrunk length 2.5, Gaster
Length 3.0
Distinctively bicoloured, with head near black, alitrunk chestnut
orange and gaster darker, near black apically. Head near
rectangular, longer than wide. Mandibles with large triangular
basal tooth, subapical teeth reduced to bumps, sculpturation of
faint rugae and distinct hair pits. Antennal insertions very close
to anterior margin of head, frontal carinae notably raised and
extending forward over anterior clypeal margin; latter near
straight, with long downcurved median hair and shorter hairs each
side. Scapes short and stout, thickening from base to apex, latter
near twice as wide as base. Funiculus with all segments except
apical, stout but slightly longer than wide, dense coarse pilosity
giving a bristly appearance; apical segment forming a distinct
club. Alitrunk profile with flat dorsum but rounded margins,
propodeum smoothly curved from dorsum to declivity. Petiole
globulose, as high as long; no subpetiolar process, several
moderately long subpetiolar hairs. Legs quite long, with very
distinct large claws; tibiae and tarsi bristly like funiculi.
Head overall with dense spiculation and marked spaced out hair
pits. Alitrunk, petiole and base of gaster densely spiculate. No
erect hairs on dorsum of head, alitrunk, petiole or gaster. Short
decumbent pilosity on head and on anterodorsum of pronotum.
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Polymorphism
Minima