Plagiolepis flavescens

Japanese Name

Himeki-ari

Collingwood, C.A. (1976) Ants from North Korea. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 68: 295-309.

Total length of worker ca 2 mm. Body color pale to darker yellow. Antennal scapes relatively shorter than in P. alluaudi; exceeding posterior margin of head by around half the length of the 2nd antennal segment. Pronotum with paired short erect hairs, which are serrate when viewed using scanning electron microscopy.

Found in woodland margins ranging to open land, nesting under stones. Workers sometimes forage on plants to collect honeydew. P. flavescens is rather common on Tsushima I., but rare on mainland Kyushu (Ogata, 1986).

Kyushu (northern part), Tsushima I.(southern part); Korean Peninsula.