Acropyga Genus

Acropyga are subterranean ants living in obligate symbiosis with root-feeding mealybugs. Queens carry a mealybug during their nuptial flight to found new colonies. Distributed across tropical Asia, Australia, and Indo-Pacific regions.

A. acutiventris
  • Eye large, with more than 20 ommatidia
  • Mand. with 5 triangular teeth (5th can hide behind 4th in fview)
      species menu
        India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Island, Australia
    • Atopodon
  • Mand. with 5 teeth, basal tooth truncate apically
  • If PP in pview dorsal surface not near-horizontal; posterolateral margin convex, not forming angle then (1)
  • If Head sides fview parallel, PE in pview thick, dorsal margin obtusely angulate then (2)
  • If Head sides fview slightly convex, PE in pview thin, dorsal margin acutely angulate then (3)
      species menu
        (1) South-East China, Hainan
        (2) Japan (Mikura-jima Is., Shikoku, Kyushu, Yaku-shima Is, Nansei Is.
        (3) China (Jiangxi, Guangxi, Hainan Is.)

    • Rhyzomyrma
  • Mand. with 3-4 teeth, basal tooth triangular with acute apex
  • if funiculus with 6 articles, eyes absent:A. septemstruma (left)
  • Else funiculus with more than 8 articles, eyes present:
  • Mand. with 3 teeth:
    A. sauteri (right)
  • Mandible with 4 teeth:
      species menu
        China, Japan, Taiwan