Cryptopone sauteri

Identification
Worker. Total length of workers around 3.5 - 4 mm. Color yellow to yellowish brown. Body covered thickly with golden hairs. Mandibles with 9 or 10 teeth. Dorsal outline of clypeus gently sloping in lateral view. Subpetiolar process developed, subtriangular and with an angled ventral tip.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Japan.

Biology
This species nests in rotting wood and leaf litter in forests. Colony size is relatively large compared to other Korean ponerine ants.

Nomenclature

 *  sauteri. Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera) sauteri Wheeler, W.M. 1906c: 304, pl. 41, fig. 6 (w.q.) JAPAN. Ogata, 1987: 118 (m.); Imai & Kubota, 1972: 194 (k.). Combination in Euponera (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1909c: 365; in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Teranishi, 1940: 8; in Cryptopone: Brown, 1963: 6; in Pachycondyla: Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 3 (by implication as Cryptopone synonymised with Pachycondyla); in Cryptopone: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 185.