Vollenhovia penetrans

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore. Oriental Region: India.

Nomenclature

 *  penetrans. Atta penetrans Smith, F. 1857a: 77 (q.) BORNEO. Combination in Aphaenogaster: Dalla Torre, 1893: 104; in Vollenhovia: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 450.

Atta penetrans

Holotype alate queen (right wings missing) in. Labelled “SAR.”

Description
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description (Smith, 1857) page 107, as Atta penetrans.

Female (Queen)

Length - 4 lines.

Black and shining; head longitudinally finely striated; the mouth, clypeus and antennae, ferruginous. Thorax: elongate-ovate, the prothorax anteriorly and the legs, ferruginous; the thorax above with oblong punctures which run into striae; an impunctate line in the middle of the mesothorax anteriorly; the metathorax truncated, the truncation smooth and shining; wings sub hyaline, with a fuscous line along the costal nervure; the apical margins of the wing with a fringe of very fine white hairs. Abdomen: elongate-ovate, dark rufo-piecous, the apical margins of the segments brighter; the nodes of the peduncle globose and punctured.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
 * Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
 * Smith, F. "Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace." Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2 (1857): 42-88.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1919. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147.