family

FORMICIDAE

subfamily

Ponerinae

genus

Ponera


ITIS

 

Ponera swezeyi

Hymenoptera On-Line

 

Ponera swezeyi

FORMIS

 

Ponera swezeyi



species

Ponera swezeyi


Japanese Name

Ogasawara-hari-ari

Original Reference

Wheeler, W.M. (1933) Three obscure genera of ponerine ants. American Museum Novitates 672: 1-23.

Synonym

Pseudocryptopone swezeyi Wheeler, 1933

Description

Small ants: total length less than 2 mm. Body color yellow. Suture between mesonotum and mesopleuron absent. Body surface smooth, with few punctures.

Remarks

Known from the floor of broad-leaf forest in the Ogasawara Islands.

Distribution

Ogasawara Is (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima); Hawaii,

References

  • Three obscure genera of ponerine ants. American Museum Novitates 672: 1-23.
  • Wilson, E. O., (1957). The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera. bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard College 116: 355-386.

Editor

Original text by Keiichi Onoyama and Mamoru Terayama. English translation by Keiichi Onoyama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.