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species
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Camponotus devestivus
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Japanese Name
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Ameiro-oo-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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Description
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Total length of workers around 7 - 10 mm. Head brown to dark brown; mesosoma, petiole and legs yellowish brown; gaster brown to blackish brown. Head long. Clypeus apically truncated. Mandibles each with 6 teeth. Scapes long, more than 1.8 times head width in minor workers, exceeding posterior margin of head by 1/4 their length in major workers. Petiolar scale thick and triangular in profile. Pronotum without erect hairs; mesonotum with only one pair of erect hairs; fewer than 3 hairs on anterior coxae.
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Remarks
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This species nests in tree trunks or dead twigs. Three worker subcastes are recognized (Harada, 1993, 1996).
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Distribution
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Honshu (Kanto District and southwards), Shikoku, Kyushu, Yaku I., Ryukyu Is (Tokunoshima I. and northwards).
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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.
- Harada, Y. (1996). Division of labor of subcast of Japanese formicine ant, camponotus devestivus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Nankiseibutu 38: 57-63. (In Japanese.)
- Harada, Y. (1993). Life cycle of Japanese formicine ants, Camponotus devestivus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Nankiseibutu 35: 111-116.
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Editor
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Original text by Mamoru Terayama, Masaaki Morisita and Keiichi Onoyama. English translation by Mamoru Terayama, edited by Robert W. Taylor.
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