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species
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Aenictus ceylonicus
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Japanese Name
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Chairo-himesasurai-ari
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Original Reference
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Mayr, G. (1866) Myrmecologische BeitrŠge. Sitzungsberichte der k. Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53: 484-517.
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Description
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Total length around 3 mm. Body brown; legs yellow. Mandibles slender and subtriangular, with 5 or 6 teeth in the Okinawa population. Antennae 10-segmented. Propodeal sides with irregular rugae. Subpetiolar process small, bearing a small lobe.
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Remarks
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The Okinawa population is provisionally assigned to the widely distributed and highly variable A. ceylonicus.
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Distribution
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Okinawa I.; South and Southeast Asia, Australia.
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References
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- Myrmecologische BeitrŠge. Sitzungsberichte der k. Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53: 484-517.
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Editor
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Original text and English translation by Mamoru Terayama.
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