family

FORMICIDAE

subfamily

Myrmicinae

genus

Tetramorium


ITIS

 

Tetramorium simillimum

Hymenoptera On-Line

 

Tetramorium simillimum

FORMIS

 

Tetramorium simillimum

 

 

 



species

Tetramorium simillimum


Japanese Name

Sazanami-shiwa-ari

Original Reference

Smith, F. (1851) List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum 6. Hymenoptera Aculeata: 134 pp. London.

Synonym

Myrmica simillima Fr. Smith (Fr. Smith, 1851) , Tetramorium simillimum Mayr (Mayr, 1861) ,

Description

Total length of workers around 2.5 mm. Body color yellowish to reddish brown from head to postpetiole; gaster dark brown. Antennae 12-segmented. Anterior margin of clypeus without median notch. Lateral margin of mesosoma sinuate, mesonotal region expanded laterally in dorsal view. Propodeal spines dentiform, directed upward. Body hairs short, stout and blunt, shorter than their interspaces. Sculpture somewhat fine, longitudinally rugulose; the space between the rugulae filled with a fine, dense reticulate-puncturation or granulation.

Remarks

The is a common pantropical species, distributed by human commerce and found in southern parts of Japan.

Distribution

Nansei Is, Ogasawara Is; Pantropical and subtropical.

References

Editor

Original text by Kazuo Ogata and Keiichi Onoyama. English translation by Kazuo Ogata, edited by Robert W. Taylor.