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species
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Strumigenys lacunosa
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Japanese Name
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Hakake-uroko-ari
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Original Reference
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Lin, C.-C. & Wu, W.-J. (1996) Revision of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan. Chinese Journal of Entomology 16: 137-152.
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Description
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Total length of workers around 2 mm. Body color reddish brown. Mandibles almost straight, without subapical teeth. Infradental lamellae almost lacking. Mesopleuron and lateral parts of propodeum with fine punctures. Body hairs abundant, some of them long and flagellate.
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Remarks
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The absence of subapical teeth on the mandibles is unique to this species among Japanese Strumigenys, so that it is easily distinguished from the others. This species was not nominated in Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee (1988) and is corresponding to S. sp. 8 in the first (1995 in Japanese) edition of this database. Rare in Japan - with only one record to data, from the floor of broadleaf forest in northern Okinawa Island.
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Distribution
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Okinawa I. (Mt. Nishime-dake [Kazuo Ogata leg.]) ;Taiwan
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References
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- Myrmecological Society of Japan, Editorial Committee (ed.) (Ed.). (1988). A list of the ants of Japan with common Japanese names. The Myrmecological Society of Japan, Tokyo.
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Editor
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Original text by Kazuo Ogata, Keiichi Onoyama and Mamoru Terayama. English translation by Kazuo Ogata, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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