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Title	Two new species of the ant genus Myrmecina (Insecta; Hymenoptera; Formicidae) from Japan and Taiwan.

Book/Journal	Edaphologia (32): 35-40.

Author	Mamoru Terayama

Edition		Volume		Number	(32)	Page	35-40

Publisher	The Japanese Society of Soil Zoology.
Publisher	The Japanese Society of Soil Zoology.

Year	1985	Month

ISBN		ISSN	0389-1445

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Remarks	Two new species of the ant genus Myrmecina, M. flava n. sp. from Japan and M. taiwana n. sp. from Taiwan, are described and illustrated based on the worker and female. Those two new species and M. punctata Emery from New Guinea are distinguishable from the other Oriental and Indo-Australian congeners by the yellowish colored body. Furthermore those new species are distinguished from M. punctata by their shagreened head and pro-mesonotum.

Remarks

Two new species of the ant genus Myrmecina, M. flava n. sp. from Japan and M. taiwana n. sp. from Taiwan, are described and illustrated based on the worker and female. Those two new species and M. punctata Emery from New Guinea are distinguishable from the other Oriental and Indo-Australian congeners by the yellowish colored body. Furthermore those new species are distinguished from M. punctata by their shagreened head and pro-mesonotum.

Taxon	Myrmecina flava Terayama, 1985

Voucher specimen(s)	HYM-002

Taxon	Myrmecina taiwana Terayama, 1985

Voucher specimen(s)	HYM-003