Proceratium itoi

Distribution
This taxon was described from Japan.

Biology
A colony of P. itoi collected in Japan by Masuko and collaborators (1985) was formed of 202 workers and 1 queen. Workers are usually collected under stones and within the leaf-litter of glossy-leaved evergreen, deciduous broad-leaved and bamboo forests (Onoyama & Yoshimura 2002).

Nomenclature

 *  itoi. Sysphincta itoi Forel, 1918a: 717 (w.) JAPAN. Ogata, 1987: 107 (m.); Onoyama & Yoshimura, 2002: 35 (q.). Combination in Proceratium: Brown, 1958g: 247. See also: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2003b: 267.