family

FORMICIDAE

subfamily

Myrmicinae

genus

Oligomyrmex


ITIS

 

Oligomyrmex sauteri

Hymenoptera On-Line

 

Oligomyrmex sauteri

FORMIS

 

Oligomyrmex sauteri



species

Oligomyrmex sauteri


Japanese Name

Taiwan-kotsuno-ari

Original Reference

Forel, A. (1912) H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Formicidae. Entomologische Mitteilungen 1: 45-81.

Description

Total length around 2 mm in soldiers, 1 mm in workers. Body light reddish brown, head of soldier darker. In soldiers: head 1.1 to 1.2 times as long as wide, with weakly convex sides in full face view; vertex with a pair of tubercles, posterior margin of head moderately concave; vertex and occiput largely smooth; vertex with 4 to 6 distinct transverse rugae; antennae 9-segmented; eyes small, smaller than the maximum width of an antennal scape; posterodorsal corners of propodeum rounded, not forming an angle; posterolateral margins of propodeum each with a thin lamellate flange; subpetiolar process small, triangular. In workers: head and pronotum largely smooth; antennae 9-segmented; pronotal and mesonotal dorsa moderately convex in profile; posterodorsal corners of propodeum rounded, not forming angles or spines; thin lamellar flanges on posterolateral margins of propodeum; subpetiolar process bearing a small blunt tubercle.

Remarks

Almost all of the mainland Japanese ants formerly identified as O. sauteri are in fact O. yamatonis. True representatives of O. sauteri have been collected only on Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.

Distribution

Senkaku Is. (Kita-kojima I.); Taiwan, Mainland China(?).

References

  • H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Formicidae. Entomologische Mitteilungen 1: 45-81.

Editor

Original English text by Mamoru Terayama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.