Taxonomic history
Emery, 1889: 505 (w.m.); Forel, 1903a PDF: 691 (w.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954a PDF: 142 (l.).See also: Bingham, 1903 PDF: 151.Carebara lignata, Westw . Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. 86 (1841), pl. 6. f. 6 [[queen]].
Hab. Java. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)
The male of this species is in the collection of the East India House, it closely resembles the female, and is of a reddish-yellow, with the wings dark fuscous; the antennae yellow, elongate and 13-jointed.
