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species
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Pachycondyla pilosior
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Japanese Name
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Kebuka-hari-ari
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Original Reference
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Wheeler, W.M. (1928) Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Japan and Korea. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia generale e agraria del R. Istituto Superiore agrario di Portici 22: 96-125.
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Synonym
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Euponera (Trachymesopus) sharpi pilosior Wheeler, 1928,
Euponera (Trachymesopus) chosenensis Teranishi, 1940,
Trachymesopus pilosior Brown, 1963,
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Description
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Total body length of workers about 4.5 - 5 mm. Color dark reddish brown to blackish brown; antennae, mandibles and legs reddish brown. Head almost square in frontal view, slightly longer than wide. Mandibles each with a basal pit. Eyes small, each with about 10 facets. Subpetiolar process trapezoidal, with sub-angulate anteroventral and posteroventral corners.
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Remarks
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This species is relatively rare. It inhabits forest leaf-litter.
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Distribution
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Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima I., Nansei Is (Okinawa I. and northwards); Korean Peninsula.
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References
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- Brown, W. L. Jr., 1963. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part 3. Some members of the tribe Ponerini. Breviora 190: 1-10
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Editor
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Original text by Mamoru Terayama and Masaaki Morisita. English translation by M. Terayama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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