nidificans

Updated: June 15, 2025

There is a species still more minute, and evidently distinct, which frequents the caraffes and toilet vessels. A third, probably the Formica nidificans of Jerdan, is black, of the same size as that last mentioned, and, from its colour, called the Kalu koombiga by the natives.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon