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species
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Acropyga kinomurai
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Japanese Name
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Hirase-yotsuba-ari
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Original Reference
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Terayama, M. & Y. Hashimoto (1996) Taxonomic studies of the Japanese Formicidae, part 1. Introduction to this series and descriptions of four new species of the genera Hypoponera, Formica and Acropyga. Nature and Human Activities, 1, 1-8.
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Description
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Total length of workers around 2 mm. Body color yellow. Head wider than long. Mandibles each with 4 acute teeth. Antennae 11-segmented; scapes not reaching posterior margin of head. Eyes small, each consisting of 5 or 6 indistinct facets. Promesonotal dorsum almost straight in profile. Metanotal groove absent. Propodeum with straight dorsal outline and broadly rounded posterodorsal corner in profile. Dorsa of head and mesosoma with abundant short erect hairs.
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Remarks
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A. kinomurai belongs to subgenus Rhizomyrma. It is known only from Ishigaki Island, and a single collection was taken under a stone on the ground together with ant-attended mealybugs, Eumyrmococcus kinomurai. A rare species.
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References
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- Terayama, M. & Y. Hashimoto (1996). Taxonomic studies of the Japanese Formicidae, part 1. Introduction to this series and descriptions of four new species of the genera Hypoponera, Formica and Acropyga. Nature and Human Activities, 1, 1-8.
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Editor
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Original text and English translation by Mamoru Terayama.
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