Cryptopone sauteri
| Latin Name: |  |
Cryptopone sauteri |
| Trivialname: |  |
- |
| Taxonomy: |  |
Subfamily: Ponerinae Tribe: Ponerini |
| Keeping Level: |  |
(2) shows higher requirements to climate and escape prevention |
| Distribution: |  |
China, Korea, Japan |
| Habitate: |  |
moderate rainforest |
| Colonyform: |  |
monogyne |
| Queen: |  |
Size: 4mm Colour: brownish yellow, slightly darker than the workers |
| Worker: |  |
Size: 3,5 - 4mm Colour: brownish yellow |
| Soldier: |  |
not present |
| Males: |  |
Size: - Colour: - |
| Nutrion: |  |
insects like flies and crickets |
| Airhumidity: |  |
Arena: 50 - 70% Nestpart: 50 - 80% |
| Temperature: |  |
Arena: 21 - 30°C Nestpart: 21 - 28°C |
| Hibernation: |  |
no |
| Nestform: |  |
nest in rotten wood and in leaflitter |
| Kind of Formicaria: |
 |
Farm, Farmbasin, Basin, Framebasin, Island, Acrylflatformicaria, Ytong/Plaster |
| Formicaria size: |  |
Size: S - M |
| Substrate: |  |
Farm: Sand-loam Arena: Sand-loam |
| Planting: |  |
similar to moderate rainforest with moss and grasses |
| Decoration: |  |
stones, leaflitter, twigs, cork |
| Description: |  |
Cryptopone sauteri is a small ponerine ant from Japan which is specialised to prey on underground larvea of different colleopteran- and dipteranspecies. Through there cryptic lifestyle there isn't many knowledge about their biology present. |
| Development: |  |
matingflight: - founding: semiclaustral colonysize: rarely more than hundred workers |
| Quantity: |  |
one fertilized queen with workers (see selection); brood (depending on the season and development) |
| Weblinks: |  |
- Forum - Reference |