Anochetus subcoecus

Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., Studia Entomologica 20, pp. 549-638 : 590-591

[17] Anochetus subcoecus

The unique worker type of Anochetus subcoecus was finally located in that part of the Hans Sauter Collection now on deposit in the Institut für Pflanzenschutzforschung der Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften der Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Abteilung Taxonomie der Insekten, Eberswalde.

The specimen is one of the depigmented, minute-eyed forms; it came from Kosempo (= Wu Ching Pao, near Nan T’ou), central Taiwan, H. Sauter. TL 3.8, HL 1.02, HW 0.88, ML 0.47, WL 1.10, scape L 0.70, eye L 0.03 mm; Cl 86, MI 46.

Color ferruginous yellow. Scape fails to reach posterior corner of head by slightly more than length of pedicel (basal funicular segment). Compound eyes each with 7-10 indistinct facets; occupying about 1/5 length of orbital fossa. Funicular segments II, III, IV short, together subequal in L to I (pedicel); II about as broad as long, shorter than III and IV, which are each a little longer than broad. Mandibles broad and thick toward apex, without preapical excision or angle. Striation of frons rather fine, mixed with punctures and reaching back in the middle of the vertex to embrace the posterior impression, but not quite reaching the nuchal carina; «occipital» lobes smooth and shining, with spaced fine punctures. Trunk convex in side view outline, but with well-marked promesonotal and meso-metanotal sutures; propodeal angles (fig. 24) small but acute (subrectangular), low. Pro- and mesonotum smooth and shining, the pronotum with dorsum of cervix and anterior margin of disc finely, transversely striate or rugulose. Sides of trunk smooth and shining, except extreme posterior sides of propodeum, which, like propodeal dorsum, is finely and densely punctulate-rugulose and opaque; declivity of propodeum, both surfaces of petiolar node, and gaster smooth and shining, with only fine and inconspicuous punctures.

Petiolar node convex in side-view outline front and rear; apical margin convex in front view (fig. 24).

Erect hairs short, fine and sparse: 1 pair on frontal lobes, 1 pair on middle vertex and 4 hairs along posterior border of vertex; 1 pair on pronotum, and about 8 hairs scattered over rest of truncal dorsum; gastric dorsum with more numerous, but still sparse, fine erect hairs on both upper and lower surfaces of all segments, a few inclined hairs on anterior coxae and mandibular apices. Pubescence moderately dense, appressed and decumbent on head, decumbent on pronotum and rest of truncal dorsum, as well as antennae; sparse and mostly appressed on mandibles, legs and gastric dorsum; not as well developed as in A. pubescens .