Tetramorium simillimum

Japanese Name

Sazanami-shiwa-ari

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

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

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.

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

Nansei Is, Ogasawara Is; Pantropical and subtropical.