Temnothorax inermis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India.

Nomenclature

 *  inermis. Leptothorax inermis Forel, 1902c: 229 (w.) INDIA. Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. See also: Bingham, 1903: 215.

Description
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from (Bingham 1903)

Worker

Head and thorax dark brown, almost black; mandibles, antennae, legs and pedicel chestnut-brown, abdomen dark chestnut-brown; head and thorax shining, very slightly longitudinally rugose, taking in certain lights the appearance of being widely striate ; the legs, pedicel and abdomen smooth, highly polished and shining ; pilosity almost entirely wanting, reduced to a few very scattered hairs; pubescence on the scape of the antennae and the tibiae recumbent. Head a little longer than broad and as broad in front as posteriorly, the sides of the head somewhat convex; mandibles subtriangular, the masticatory margin armed with 5 small teeth; clypeus with the medial portion slightly convex, rounded posteriorly, anterior margin transverse; antennae rather short, the scape curved near the base, not reaching the top of the head; eyes lateral, situated about the middle of the head. Thorax anteriorly rounded and convex, the basal portion of the metanotum rectangular, rounded above, truncate posteriorly, unarmed, but with half-obsolete lateral tubercles. Pedicel: the 1st node cuneiform, petiolate anteriorly, obtuse, rather transverse above; '2nd node convex above, about as broad as long; abdomen oval, slightly transverse anteriorly.

Length: 4 mm.

Habitat: Recorded from Dharmsala (Sage).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Forel A. 1902. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249.
 * Forel A. 1903. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 14: 679-715.
 * Forel A. 1906. Les fourmis de l'Himalaya. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 42: 79-94.