TY - JOUR
T1 - Japanese Tetramorium queens
T2 - identification key and species diagnoses (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae)
AU - Yamane, Seiki
AU - Hosoishi, Shingo
AU - Ito, Fuminori
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Enago (www.enago.jp) for the English language review. This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant Number 21K05616, MEXT, Japan. Our cordial gratitude is extended to Mr. Ken’ichi Kanai (Amami-shi), Mr. Toshio Muroi (Shimizu Corporation), Prof. Ka-zuo Ogata (Kyushu University), Prof. Yôko Takematsu (Yamaguchi University) and many other friends of ours for their kind help in collecting the material.
Publisher Copyright:
© Seiki Yamane et al.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In Japan, nine species have been known in the ant genus Tetramorium, of which five or more are considered tramps. A key to the queens of nine Tetramorium species found in Japan is presented. The tramp species T. tonganum Mayr, 1870 is excluded from the key because no queen was available for us, while T. pacificum Mayr, 1870 is included because it was once intercepted at a port in Japan and exotic queens were available. Diagnosis of the queen of each species is provided together with differences between the two female castes. Tetramorium tanakai Bolton, 1977 is resurrected from synonymy with T. kraepelini Forel, 1905 based mainly on the queen characters.
AB - In Japan, nine species have been known in the ant genus Tetramorium, of which five or more are considered tramps. A key to the queens of nine Tetramorium species found in Japan is presented. The tramp species T. tonganum Mayr, 1870 is excluded from the key because no queen was available for us, while T. pacificum Mayr, 1870 is included because it was once intercepted at a port in Japan and exotic queens were available. Diagnosis of the queen of each species is provided together with differences between the two female castes. Tetramorium tanakai Bolton, 1977 is resurrected from synonymy with T. kraepelini Forel, 1905 based mainly on the queen characters.
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U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.1084.69767
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.1084.69767
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124367727
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 2022
SP - 43
EP - 64
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 1084
ER -