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species
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Leptothorax makora
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Japanese Name
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Hayashi-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 - 2.5 mm. Body color black to blackish brown. Antennal scapes long, reaching posterior margin of head in full face view. Dorsum of mesosoma weakly convex in profile. Metanotal groove distinctly incised dorsally. Propodeal spines relatively long, longer than their basal width. Petiolar node high and with an inverted U-shape.
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Remarks
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This species resembles Leptothorax spinosior and Leptothorax anira. It is distinguished from L. spinosior by its inverted U-shaped, opposed to triangular, petiolar node, and from L. anira by its convex mesosomal dorsum. This species corresponds to Leptothorax sp. 9 in Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee (1992).
Leptothorax makora nests in dead twigs on standing trees in forests or forest margins, while L. spinosior nests in the soil of open habitats or grasslands.
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Distribution
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Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.
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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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