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species
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Tetraponera attenuata
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Japanese Name
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Oo-nagafushi-ari
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Original Reference
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Smith, F. (1877) Descriptions of new species of the genera Pseudomyrma and Tetraponera, belonging to the family Myrmicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1877 : 71.
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Synonym
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Sima attenuata var. tenussima Emery, 1900: 675. [Synonymy by Forel, 1912b: 54],
Sima birmana Forel, 1902: 245. [Synonymy by Ward, 2001: 622,
Sima attenuata var. thagatensis Forel, 1902: 249. [Synonymy by Ward, 2001: 622]
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Description
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Known in Japan only from a single dealated female collected in northern Okinawa. The specimen was identified by Ward (2001). A large species: total length of female around 10 mm. Body color black. Mandibles with 5 teeth. Anterior margin of clypeus with a pair of low teeth.
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Remarks
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T. attenuata is distributed widely in Asia, ranging from northeast India, through continental and insular SE Asia to southern China, Taiwan and Japan. The known female was collected by sweep-net and has the head and mandibles partly broken. It might have flown to the collection site from elesewhere. Workers have not been collected in Japan.
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Distribution
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Okinawa I. (Mt. Yonaha-dake [H. Makihara leg.]).
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References
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- Ward, P. S. 2001 Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 15: 589-665.
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Editor
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Original text by Kazuo Ogata. English translation by Kazuo Ogata, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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