Lasiomyrma gracilinoda

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia.

Nomenclature

 *  gracilinoda. Lasiomyrma gracilinoda Terayama & Yamane, 2000: 526, figs. 9-10 (w.) BORNEO.

Worker
HL 0.56 mm; HW 0.48 mm; SL 0.31 mm; CI 84; SI 66; WL 0.68 mm; PW 0.40 mm; PL 0.21 mm; PH 0.23 mm; DPW 0.16 mm; PPL 0.15 mm; PPH 0.18 mm; PPW 0.20mm; TL 2.1 mm.

Head 1.17 times as long as wide, coarsely punctate, with very weakly concave occipital margin in full face view; sides behind eyes subparallel. Eye 0.18 mm in maximum diameter.

Alitrunk densely punctate, with largely straight promesonotal dorsum excepting the posterior portion weakly convex, and straight propodeal dorsum; metanotal groove shallow. Mesopleuron rather short, its maximum length slightly longer than its length of ventral margin. Propodeal spine thin, longer than wide at base; propodeal declivity steep; propodeal lobe weakly produced posteriorly.

Petiole slightly higher than long, with a thin node in profile; node reversed V-shaped with a bluntly produced dorsum. Postpetiole slightly longer than high, with convex dorsal margin in profile.

Gaster with shallow small punctures that are moderately spaced, in dorsal view 0.49 mm in maximum width.

Body reddish brown; mandible and antenna yellow; legs brown.

Type Material
Holotype. Worker, Poring (600 malt.), Kinabalu Park, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia, 29. X. 1996, T. Kikuta leg. Tropical Biology and Conservation Unit, Malaysia Sabah University, Kota Kinabalu.

Etymology
Named after its thin petiolar node in profile.