Paratrechina ogasawarensis

Japanese Name

Ogasawara-ameiro-ari

Terayama, M. (1999) Taxonomic studies of the Japanese Formicidae, part 5. Genus Paratrechina Motschoulsky. Memoirs of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1: 49-64.

Total length of workers around 2 mm. Head and mesosoma yellowish brown; gaster dark brown. Pronotal dorsum with two pairs of long, erect hairs and three pairs of short hairs; mesonotal dorsum with two pairs of long erect hairs; hairs lacking on propodeal dorsum. Very similar to P. amia: but the head and mesosoma are lighter in color than in that species (which is dark- to blackish brown); mesonotal dorsum with two pairs of erect hairs (there are more than two pairs in P. amia).

This species is found in gasslands and forests, nesting in the soil, leaf litter and rotting wood.

Ogasawara Is, Volcano Is.