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species
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Lasius teranishii
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Japanese Name
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Teranishi-ke-ari
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Original Reference
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Wheeler, W.M. (1928) Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Japan and Korea. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia generale e agraria del R. Istituto Superiore agrario di Portici 22: 96-125.
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Synonym
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Lasius Ouchii Teranishi (Teranishi, 1940)
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Description
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Total length of workers around 3.0 - 3.5 mm: somewhat smaller than the four other Japanese species of subgenus Dendrolasius. Color jet black. Petiole with an inverted U-shaped profile; the scale widest near its dorsal margin when viewed frontally; dorsal margin almost straight, without a median notch. In females, scapes very strongly flattened, with numerous decumbent hairs; mesonotal dorsum also with many short decumbent hairs; petiole thick and low, the scale with an inverted U-shaped profile.
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Remarks
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This species is distributed in mountainous areas and might be a temporary parasite of L. flavus. Nuptial flights take place during July (Yamauchi et al., 1986).
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Distribution
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Hokkaido, Honshu (central Honshu and northwards); Korean Peninsula.
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References
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- Wheeler, W. M. (1928). Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Japan and Korea. . Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agrar. Portici, 21, 96-125.
- Yamauchi, K., K. Ito & N. Suzuki (1986). Observations on the nuptial flights of the ant genus Lasius. . Sci. Rep. Fac. Educ.Gifu Univ. (Nat. Sci.), 10, 1-11.
- Teranishi, C. (1940). Works of Cho Teranishi. Memorial Volume (ed. by Nobuyoshi Tozawa) and Post humous section. , 312.
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Editor
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Original text by Mamoru Terayama and Katsusuke Yamauchi. English translation by Mamoru Terayama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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