Paratrechina yambaru

Japanese Name

Yanbaru-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 1.5-2 mm. Head and lateral faces of mesosoma dark brown; mesosomal dorsum, antennae and gaster blackish brown; legs largely dark brown, the tarsi whitish. Mandibles each with 6 teeth. Antennal scapes exceeding posterior margin of head by half their length, without hairs. Dorsum of mesonotum with a pair of short erect hairs. Propodeum, hind femora and tibiae without erect hairs. Body with fragile, easily collapsed, cuticle.

This species is known only from northern Okinawa.

Okinawa I.(Northern part).