Chronoxenus dalyi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Singapore. Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India, Nepal. Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 *  dalyi. Bothriomyrmex wroughtoni r. dalyi Forel, 1895e: 469 (diagnosis in key) (w.) INDIA. Combination in Chronoxenus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 166. Subspecies of wroughtonii: Emery, 1913a: 29; Santschi, 1919i: 202. Raised to species: Bingham, 1903: 307; Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 119.

Description
Worker

Bingham (1903): Head, thorax and abdomen yellowish brown, the abdomen sometimes dark brown. The whole insect covered with a whitish pubescence, most dense and somewhat long on the head and abdomen; pilosity very sparse, confined to a few scattered pale hairs on the front of the head and on the abdomen posteriorly. Head with the mandibles broadly oval, the top of the head slightly convex, the occiput widely emarginate ; mandibles broad, with 4 teeth placed rather wide apart; clypeus much broader than high, slightly convex, its anterior margin slightly but distinctly arched; antennae more slender and longer than in B. myops, the scape extending slightly above the top of the head, the 2nd joint of the flagellum distinctly longer than broad; eyes larger, placed more to the front than in B. myops. Thorax short, somewhat laterally compressed. Node of the pedicel higher and more erect than in B. myops; abdomen broadly oval.

Length: 2 - 2.5 mm

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