Crematogaster teranishii

Japanese Name

Teranishi-shiriage-ari

Santschi, F. (1930) Trois notes myrmŽcologiques. Bulletin et Annales de la SociŽtŽ Entomologique de Belgique 70: 263-270.

Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) brunnea st. teranishii Santschi, 1930, Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) brunnea st. ruginota var. azumai Santschi, 1941, Crematogaster teranishii: Onoyama, 1998,

Total length of workers around 2 - 4 mm. Body color brown to blackish brown. Antennal club 3-segmented. Clypeus rough, with fine longitudinal striae or punctures. Promesonotal suture indistinct to distinct; in the latter case the mesonotal border in dorsal view is triangular anteriorly. Pronotum laterally and dorsally finely, longitudinally striate. Mesonotal dorsum nearly flat at the anterior half and lowered at the posterior half; margined posterolaterally. Mesonotal dorsum with a faint, longitudinal median carina. Mesonotal pleuron wholly punctured. Metanotal groove distinctly impressed, barely closed by a small lamella at the lateral border of its dorsum. Propodeal spines slender and long, each about 3 times as long as the width of its base. Petiole wider than long, the sides in dorsal view abruptly narrowed posteriorly. Subpetiolar process barely developed. Postpetiolar dorsum with a median furrow.

This species is arboreal, nesting in dead twigs or dead bamboo stems.

Honshu, Shikoku, Tsushima I., Kyushu, Okinawa I., Ishigaki I.; Korean Peninsula.