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species
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Hypoponera beppin
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Japanese Name
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Beppin-nise-hari-ari
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Original Reference
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Terayama, M. (1999) Taxonomic studies of the Japanese Formicidae, Part 4. Three new species of Ponerinae. Memoirs of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1: 7-15.
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Description
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Total length of workers around 3 mm. Body color brown to blackish brown. Eyes each a single black facet; the distance from posterior margin of clypeus to anterior margin of eyes 4 - 5 times eye diameter. Antennal club 6-segmented, the sixth segment from the apex indistinctly swollen (antennal clubs are 5-segmented in other Japanese species). Metanotum slightly constricted. Lateral borders of propodeal declivity angulate. Petiole narrow in posterior view; its dorsal surface slightly pointed. Subpetiolar process subtriangular.
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Remarks
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This species corresponds to Hypoponera sp. 6 of Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee (1988). Nests in the soil. Rather rare.
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Distribution
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Honshu (the Chubu District and southwards), Shikoku, Kyushu, Nansei Is, Senkaku Is; Taiwan
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References
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- Terayama, M. (1999). Taxonomic studies of the Japanese Formicidae, Part 4. Three new species of Ponerinae. Memoirs of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1: 7-15.
- Myrmecological Society of Japan, Editorial Committee (ed.) (Ed.). (1988). A list of the ants of Japan with common Japanese names. The Myrmecological Society of Japan, Tokyo.
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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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