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species
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Leptothorax haira
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Japanese Name
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Ogasawara-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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A small species: total length of workers around 2 mm. Head and gaster brownish, rest of body yellow. Antennal scapes reaching posterior margin of head in full face view. Dorsum of mesosoma weakly convex; metanotal groove not indented in profile. Propodeum with relatively long spines, their length about twice the distance separating them in dorsal view. Petiolar peduncle short; node low, with straight anterior margin. Subpetiolar process relatively large, triangular.
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Remarks
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This species corresponds to Leptothorax sp. 6 in Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee (1992).
L. haira is known only from two individuals collected on Ani-jima Island, Ogasawara Islands.
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Distribution
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Ogasawara Is (Ani-jima I. [Toshiyuki Satoh leg.]).
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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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