Ponera japonica (lat.) Is a species of small ants of the genus Ponera from the subfamily Ponerinae ( Formicidae ) [1] .
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| Ponera japonica ( Wheeler WM , 1906) |
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Distribution
China , North Korea , South Korea , Japan and Russia ( Kuril Islands , Primorsky Territory ) [1] [2] .
Description
Ants are brown-black (about 3 mm). They differ in dark color and relatively large sizes (head length 0.65 mm, head width 0.53 mm). Clypeus , mandibles, antennae and legs yellowish. The antennae of workers and females are 12-segmented. Scape of the neck does not reach. The mandibular palps are 2-segmented, the lower labial palps are composed of 2 segments (palp formula 2.2). The head is elongated. The eyes are relatively large for the genus; the ocellium is absent in the workers (the females have it). The mandibles are triangular; the frontal ridges are absent. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of one massive segment ( petiol ), the nodule of the petiol is thick. Nests in soil and rotten vegetation [1] . The species was first described in 1906 by the American worldmecologist William Wheeler based on materials from Japan [3] .
Worker on top
Worker's head
Female on top
Female head
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Terayama, M. Taxonomic studies on the Japanese Formicidae, part 2. Seven genera of Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae and Myrmicinae (Eng.) // Nature and Human Activities: Journal. - Hyogo : Hyogo Kenritsu Hito to shizen no Hakubutsukan / Museum of Nature and Human Activities, 1996. - Vol. 1. - P. 9—32. - ISSN 1342-0054 .
- ↑ Kupyanskaya A.N. 1990 . Ants of the Far East of the USSR. - Vladivostok: Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 258 p. (p. 86)
- ↑ Wheeler, WM 1906. The ants of Japan. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 22: 301–328 (page 306)
Literature
- Himender Bharti, Joginder Singh Rilta. Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India (English) // ZooKeys: Journal. - 2015. - Vol. 526. - P. 9-18. - DOI : 10.3897 / zookeys.526.5971 .
- Taylor, RW A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (English) // Pac. Insects Monogr. : Magazine. - 1967. - Vol. 13. - P. 1-112.
- Xu Z. A systematic study on the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of China // Entomotaxonomia. - Yangling , Shaanxi , China : Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University , 2001b. - Vol. 23. - P. 51-60. - ISSN 2095-8609 .