Anochetus shohki

Japanese Name

Hime-agito-ari

Terayama, M. (1996) Taxonomic studies of the Japanese Formicidae, part 2. Seven genera of Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae and Myrmicinae. Nature and Human Activities, 1, 9-32.

Total length of workers around 4.0 mm. Head including mandibles and antennae brown, mesosoma and petiole dark brown, gaster blackish brown, legs yellowish brown. Mandibles 0.8 times head length, with straight dorsal inner margins; shafts only weakly broadened anteriorly; dorsal margins without teeth; apical portions each with 3 acute teeth. Antennal scapes not reaching the posterolateral corner of head. Eyes moderate in size. Pronotum with a carinate anterior margin. Petiole thin, carinate dorsally, with straight anterior margin and weakly convex posterior margin in profile.

Known only from Ishigaki Island, Nansei Islands.

Ishigaki I.