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species
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Tapinoma sp.3
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Description
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A small-sized species: total length of workers generally a little less than 1.5 mm. Body color pale yellow to yellow. Antennal scapes short, just reaching the posterior border of head. Anterior margin of clypeus almost straight in the middle. Eyes smaller than in T. melanocephalum, each with about 6 facets spanning its long axis. No erect setae on mesosoma.
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Remarks
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This species was formerly identified as T. indicum. Type specimens of the latter have been examined. They differ in body size, coloration and morphology from the Japanese specimens under review here. T. sp. 3. Former Okinawa-konuka-ari O. sp. 2 of Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee (1988) was considered as the same of this species. Nests are located in the soil or hollow twigs.
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Distribution
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Honshu (Kanagawa Pref. and southwards along the Pacific coast; Kyoto Pref. and southwards along the coast of the Japan Sea), Shikoku, Kyushu, Yaku I., Nansei Is, Senkaku Is.
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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 Keiichi Onoyama and Mamoru Terayama. Revised by Masashi Yoshimura. English translation by Keiichi Onoyama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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