Yamane Sk., Sasaki H., Hosokawa R.
A new species of the ant genus Carebara Weswood (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from the Yaeyama Islands, Ryukyus Archipelago, Japan
Number: 523, Pages: 8 - 15
A new species of the ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 is described based on the major and minor workers from Yonaguni-jima, Yaeyama Islands, the Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Among the Japanese congeners it is the only species with a pair of large vertexal horns that are widely separated from each other and connected with a complete transverse carina in the major worker. Carebara lithophila sp. n. is compared with the most closely related species C. sakamotoi Terayama, Liu et Eguchi, 2012 from Taiwan and C. bihornata Xu, 2003 from China.