Ponera yuhuang

Identification
Separated from the Taiwanese congeners by the absence of posteroventral teeth of subpetiolar process, the small body size (TL 2.2 mm), and the brown body.

Distribution
This taxon was described from Taiwan.

Nomenclature

 *  yuhuang. Ponera yuhuang Terayama, 2009: 110, figs. 52-54 (w.) TAIWAN.

Worker
Holotype. Head coarsely microreticulate, 1.23 times as long as wide, with concave posterior margin in full face view. Antennal scape relatively short, not reaching posterior margin of head; SI = 82; club consist of 4 segments. Eye small, consisting of a single facet. Petiolar node with parallel anterior and posterior margins and weakly convex dorsum in profile: posterodorsal corner forming a dull angle; posterior margin in dorsal view almost straight. Subpetiolar process without posteroventral teeth.

Measurements (mm). HL 0.49, HW 0.40, SL 0.33, WL 0.70, PNL 0.15, PH 0.30, DPW 0.20, TL 2.2.

Color. Brown; legs and mandible yellowish brown.

Type Material
Holotype. Worker, Nanshan-Anleng, Yilan Pref., 28. vii. -2. viii. 1988. Type depository. NIAES.

Etymology
The specific epithet is the Chinese noun Yuhuang, which is the name of a Taiwanese god.