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species
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Polyrhachis latona
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Japanese Name
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Taiwan-toge-ari
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Original Reference
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Wheeler, W.M. (1909) Ants of Formosa and the Philippines. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26: 333-345.
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Description
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Total length of workers around 5 - 6 mm. Body color black with dense whitish pubescence. Dorsal outline of mesosoma roundly convex in profile, the dorsal surface transversely flat with lateral margination. Pronotum with a pair of acute teeth directed forwards. Mesonotum without teeth. Propodeum with small teeth; posterodorsal margin carinate. Petiole with two pairs of spines, the inner pair larger than the others; dorsal margin of petiole with a median blunt angle in frontal view.
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Remarks
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This species is referable to subgenus Myrma. It is commonly distributed in the Sakishima group of the Nansei Islands. It nests in the soil.
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Distribution
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Nansei Is (Sakishima group); Taiwan.
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References
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- Ants of Formosa and the Philippines. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26: 333-345.
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Editor
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Original text by Mamoru Terayama and Masao Kubota. English translation by Mamoru Terayama, edited by Robert W. Taylor
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