Polyrhachis jerdonii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Genus: | Polyrhachis |
Subgenus: | Myrmhopla |
Species: | P. jerdonii
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Binomial name | |
Polyrhachis jerdonii Forel, 1892
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Polyrhachis jerdonii is a species of ant in the subfamily Formicinae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.[1]
A part of the Polyrhachis cryptoceroides species group. Similar to Polyrhachis thailandica. Both have a laterally marginate mesosoma and a weakly indicated metanotal groove. They differentiate in the overall slupture of the body that, in P. jerdonii, is very delicately and finely reticulate-punctate.