Armed Spiny Ant

Polyrhachis armata

Polyrhachis armata is a very widespread and distinctive south-east Asian species of the subgenus Myrmhopla.
Black Spiny Ant (Polyrhachis armata)  Geotagged,Indonesia,Polyrhachis armata,Summer

Distribution

A relatively common species that extends from the Andaman Islands and Indo-China, including Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, eastwards to the Philippines and south to Borneo, Sumatra and Java. It was listed from Sulawesi by Emery (1901),

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderHymenoptera
FamilyFormicidae
GenusPolyrhachis
SpeciesPolyrhachis armata
Photographed in
Indonesia
Malaysia