Pachycondyla bispinosa

7. Pachycondyla bispinosa. Worker. Length 6 lines.-Closely resembling P. rufipes, the mandibles, legs and antenna; being red; the thorax and head similarly sculptured; the metathorax truncate, the margin of the truncation with a stout curved spine on each side; the node of the peduncle has its posterior margin denticulate, with a longer tooth at the lateral angles and a tooth beneath; the first and second segments of the abdomen longitudinally grooved; the apical segments rufo-testaceous. Hab. Australia? (Coll. F. Smith.)
Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 107