Pheidole susanowo

Japanese Name

Kuro-oozu-ari

Onoyama, K. & Terayama, M. (1999) A new species of the ant genus Pheidole Westwood from Japan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Myrmecological Society of Japan, 1: 65-69.

Total length of body around 3.5 mm in soldiers, around 2 mm in workers. Body color blackish-brown. In soldiers: gular dentition with 3 distinct median projections; head almost as long as wide; mesonotal area not raised separately from pronotum; mesosoma, petiole and postpetiole covered with fine punctures. In workers: posterior portion of head flat, with weakly concave posterior margin and no occipital carina; gular dentition undeveloped; median longitudinal carina present on clypeus; remaining features as given for soldier.

A rare species. No biological observations have been reported. Corresponding to Pheidole sp. D of Onoyama (1976).

Ishigaki I.