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species
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Hypoponera nubatama
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Japanese Name
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Kuro-nise-hari-ari
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Original Reference
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Terayama, M. & Y. Hashimoto (1996) Taxonomic studies of the Japanese Formicidae, part 1. Introduction to this series and descriptions of four new species of the genera Hypoponera, Formica and Acropyga. Nature and Human Activities, 1, 1-8.
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Description
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Total length of workers around 2.5 mm. Body color dark brown to black. Eyes each consisting of 3 facets; situated near the posterior margin of clypeus (the distance from posterior margin of clypeus to anterior margin of eyes is twice the eye diameter). Suture between mesonotum and mesopleuron shallow, indistinct, obscured by pubescence. Metanotum constricted. Lateral borders of propodeal declivity angulate. Petiole thin, twice as broad as long; its dorsal surface narrow, convex above. Subpetiolar process trapezoidal, with posteroventral lateral carinae.
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Remarks
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Very similar to H. opaciceps, distinguished by smaller size and the petiole being narrowed above, essentially lacking a dorsal face. Ergatoid males are known.
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Distribution
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Honshu (the Kanto District and southwards).
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References
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- Terayama, M. & Y. Hashimoto (1996). Taxonomic studies of the Japanese Formicidae, part 1. Introduction to this series and descriptions of four new species of the genera Hypoponera, Formica and Acropyga. Nature and Human Activities, 1, 1-8.
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Editor
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Original text by Keiichi Onoyama and Mamoru Terayama. English translation by Keiichi Onoyama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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