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species
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Cryptopone sauteri
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Japanese Name
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Togezune-hari-ari
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Original Reference
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Wheeler, W.M. (1906c) The ants of Japan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22: 301-328.
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Synonym
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Pachycondyla (Trachymesopus) sauteri Wheeler (Wheeler, 1906) ,
Euponera (Pseudoponera) sauteri (Wheeler) (Emery, 1909) ,
Euponera (Trachymesopus) sauteri (Wheeler) (Emery, 1911) ,
Cryptopone sauteri (Wheeler) (Brown, 1963) ,
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Description
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Total length of workers around 3.5 - 4 mm. Color yellow to yellowish brown. Body covered thickly with golden hairs. Mandibles with 9 or 10 teeth. Dorsal outline of clypeus gently sloping in lateral view. Subpetiolar process developed, subtriangular and with an angled ventral tip.
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Remarks
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This species nests in rotting wood and leaf litter in forests. Colony size is relatively large compared to other Japanese ponerine ants. C. sauteri is a predator of dipterous and coleopterous larvae (Murata, 1988). It is commonly collected in appropriate sites.
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Distribution
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Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima I., Yaku I., Nansei Is (Amami-oshima I. and northwards);
Korean Peninsula.
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References
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- The ants of Japan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22: 301-328.
- In Wytsman, P. Genera Insectorum. Hymenoptera, Fam. Formicidae, subfam. Ponerinae. Fasc. 118: 124 pp. Bruxelles.
- Emery, C. (1909). Beitrage zur Monographies der Formiciden des palaarktischen Faunengebietes. 8. Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1909:355-376.
- Brown, W. L., Jr. (1963). Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part‡V. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). . Breviora, (190), 1-10.
- Murata, K. ,1988
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Editor
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Original text by Mamoru Terayama and Keiichi Onoyama. English translation by Mamoru Terayama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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