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species
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Pyramica hirashimai
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Japanese Name
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Hime-sedaka-uroko-ari
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Original Reference
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Ogata, K. (1990) A new species of the ant genus Epitritus Emery from Japan. Esakia, Special Issue 1: 197-199.
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Synonym
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Epitritus hirashimai Ogata, 1990,
Pyramica hirashimai (Ogata): Bolton, 1999,
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Description
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Total length of workers around 1 mm. Smaller than Pyramica hexamera. Body color yellowish brown. Mandibles without small teeth on their shafts ; dorsal spiniform tooth of apical dentition less distinct than in P. hexamera. Anterior margin of clypeus fringed with scale-like hairs. Mesonotum not overhanging propodeum. Propodeal spines absent. Spongiform appendages on posterolateral portion of propodeum developed.
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Remarks
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This species corresponds to former Epitritus sp. 2 of Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee (1988). Rarer in Japan than P. hexamera. Nests in the soil of broadleaf forests.
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Distribution
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Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Nansei Is.
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References
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- Ogata, K. (1990). A new species of the ant genus Epitritus Emery from Japan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). . Esakia, (special Issue 1), 197-199.
- Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist., 33: 1639-1689.
- 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 and Keiichi Onoyama. English translation by Kazuo Ogata, edited by Robert W. Taylor. Revised by Masashi Yoshimura.
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