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species
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Leptothorax anira
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Japanese Name
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Hirase-muneboso-ari
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Original Reference
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Terayama, M. & K. Onoyama (1999) The ant genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) in Japan. Memoirs of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1: 71-97.
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Description
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Total length of workers around 2.5 - 3 mm. Body color black to blackish brown. Antennal scapes long, reaching posterior margin of head in frontal view. Dorsal outline of mesonotum straight in profile. Metanotal groove present but weak. Propodeal spines acute and narrow but somewhat shorter than those of L. spinosior; in lateral view, each is 2.5 - 3 times as long as its basal width. Petiolar node an inverted U-shape.
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Remarks
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This species resembles Leptothorax spinosior and Leptothorax makora, but is separable by the straight dorsal outline of the mesosoma in profile.
L. anira corresponds to Leptothorax sp. 10 in Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee (1992).
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Distribution
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Honshu, Kyushu, Nansei Is (Amami-oshima I., Iou-torishima I.).
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References
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- Terayama, M. & K. Onoyama (1999). The ant genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera; Formicidae). Memoris of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1: 71-97.
- Myrmecological Society of Japan, Editorial Committee (ed.) (1992). A guide for the identification of Japanese ants (III). Myrmicinae and suppliment to Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 94pp. The Myrmecological Society of Japan, Tokyo.
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Editor
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Original text by Mamoru Terayama, Keiichi Onoyama, and Masaaki Morisita. English translation by Mamoru Terayama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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