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species
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Leptothorax antera
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Japanese Name
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Fushinaga-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 3 mm. Body color black to blackish brown. Antennal scapes long, exceeding posterior margin of head in full face view. Dorsal outline of mesonotum straight. Metanotal groove not incised dorsally. Propodeal spines acute and long, each distinctly longer than its basal width and somewhat downcurved. Petiolar peduncle relatively the longest among Japanese Leptothorax species. Petiolar node essentially an inverted U-shape, but the posterior margin much more steeply sloping than the anterior margin.
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Remarks
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This species corresponds to Leptothorax sp. 11 in Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee (1992).
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Distribution
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Shikoku, Izu Is (Hachijyo-jima I.), Nansei Is (Amami-oshima I., Tokuno-shima 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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