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species
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Hypoponera zwaluwenburgi
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Japanese Name
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Marufushi-nise-hari-ari
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Original Reference
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Wheeler, W.M. (1933) Three obscure genera of ponerine ants. American Museum Novitates 672: 1-23.
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Synonym
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Pseudocryptopone zwaluwenburgi Wheeler, 1933,
Ponera zwaluwenburgi (Wheeler): Wilson, 1957,
Hypoponera zwaluwenburgi (Wheeler): Taylor, 1967
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Description
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Total length of workers around 2.5 mm. Body color yellow. Easily distinguished from other species of Hypoponera by the presence of a circularly margined swelling on the posterodorsal corner of the mesopleuron and by petiolar morphology. Eyes absent. Lateral border of propodeal declivity rounded. Petiole 1.5 or less times as broad as long; its dorsal face distinctly defined; anterior and posterior borders tapering in lateral view.
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Remarks
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Reproductive alates apparently emerge in June on Okinawa. Rare.
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Distribution
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Okinawa I.; Taiwan, Hawaii, Polynesia.
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References
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- Three obscure genera of ponerine ants. American Museum Novitates 672: 1-23.
- Taylor, R. W. (1967). A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille. . Pac. Ins. Mon., 13, 1-112.
- Wilson, E. O., (1957). The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera. bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard College 116: 355-386.
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Editor
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Original text by Keiichi Onoyama and Mamoru Terayama. Revised by Masashi Yoshimura. English translation by Keiichi Onoyama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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