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species
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Monomorium floricola
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Japanese Name
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Futairo-hime-ari
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Original Reference
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Jerdon, T.C. (1851) A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India. Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17: 103-127.
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Synonym
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Atta floricola Jerdon, 1851,
Monomorium floricola: Emery in Dalla Torre, 1893,
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Description
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Total length of workers around 1.5 mm. Body bicolored: head and gaster dark brown; the rest yellowish brown, with the mesosoma variable in hue. Eyes each with around 10 facets. Mandibles each with 4 teeth. Paired longitudinal carinae on clypeus distinct. Promesonotum depressed and elongate. Metanotal groove distinct. Propodeum with a rounded posterodorsal margin in profile. Ventral outline of petiole almost straight in profile. Body surfaces without sculpture, smooth and shining.
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Remarks
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Found in open land, nesting under bark on trees or in hollow twigs.
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Distribution
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Nansei Is (Nakano-shima I. and southwards), Ogasawara Is; pantropical, subtropical.
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Editor
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Original text by Kazuo Ogata and Mamoru Terayama. English translation by Kazuo Ogata, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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