- Acropyga kinomurai Terayama & Hashimoto, 1996
- Acropyga nipponensis Terayama, 1985
- Acropyga sauteri Forel, 1912
- Acropyga yaeyamensis Terayama & Hashimoto, 1996
- Aenictus ceylonicus (Mayr, 1866)
- Aenictus formosensis Forel, 1913
- Aenictus lifuiae Terayama, 1984
- Anochetus shohki Terayama, 1996
- Aphaenogaster concolor Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster donann Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster edentula Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster erabu Nishizono & Yamane, 1990
- Aphaenogaster famelica (Smith, F., 1874)
- Aphaenogaster gracillima Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster irrigua Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster izuensis Terayama & Kubota, 2013
- Aphaenogaster japonica Forel, 1911
- Aphaenogaster kumejimana Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster luteipes Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster minutula Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster omotoensis Terayama & Kubota, 2013
- Aphaenogaster osimensis Teranishi, 1940
- Aphaenogaster rugulosa Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Aphaenogaster tipuna Forel, 1913
- Aphaenogaster tokarainsulana Watanabe & Yamane, 1999
- Brachyponera chinensis (Emery, 1895)
- Brachyponera luteipes (Mayr, 1862)
- Brachyponera nakasujii Yashiro, et al. 2010
- Camponotus albosparsus Bingham, 1903
- Camponotus amamianus Terayama, 1991
- Camponotus bishamon Terayama, 1999
- Camponotus brunni Forel, 1901
- Camponotus daitoensis Terayama, 1999
- Camponotus devestivus Wheeler, W.M., 1928
- Camponotus friedae Forel, 1912
- Camponotus habereri Forel, 1911
- Camponotus hemichlaena Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951
- Camponotus itoi Forel, 1912
- Camponotus iwoensis Terayama & Kubota, 2011
- Camponotus japonicus Mayr, 1866 — Японский муравей-древоточец
- Camponotus kaguya Terayama, 1999
- Camponotus keihitoi Forel, 1913
- Camponotus kiusiuensis Santschi, 1937
- Camponotus kunigamiensis Terayama, 2013
- Camponotus monju Terayama, 1999
- Camponotus nawai Ito, 1914
- Camponotus nigronitidus Azuma, 1951
- Camponotus nipponensis Santschi, 1937
- Camponotus nipponicus
- Camponotus obscuripes Mayr, 1879
- Camponotus ogasawarensis Terayama & Satoh, 1990
- Camponotus quadrinotatus Forel, 1886
- Camponotus sachalinensis Forel, 1904
- Camponotus senkakuensis Terayama, 2013
- Camponotus shohki
- Camponotus vitiosus Smith, F., 1874
- Camponotus yamaokai Terayama & Satoh, 1990
- Camponotus yambaru Terayama, 1999
- Camponotus yessensis Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951
- Crematogaster izanami Terayama, 2013
- Crematogaster matsumurai
- Crematogaster miroku Terayama, 2013
- Crematogaster nawai
- Crematogaster osakensis
- Crematogaster suehiro
- Crematogaster teranishii
- Crematogaster vagula
- Discothyrea kamiteta
- Discothyrea sauteri
- Euponera pilosior
- Euponera sakishimensis
- Formica candida Smith, F., 1878
- Formica fukaii Wheeler, W.M., 1914
- Formica gagatoides Ruzsky, 1904
- Formica hayashi Terayama & Hashimoto, 1996
- Formica japonica Motschoulsky, 1866
- Formica lemani Bondroit, 1917
- Formica sanguinea Latreille, 1798
- Formica truncorum Fabricius, 1804
- Formica yessensis Wheeler, W.M., 1913
- Formica yoshiokae Wheeler, W.M. 1933
- Hypoponera beppin
- Hypoponera ergatandria (Forel, 1893)
- Hypoponera nippona
- Hypoponera nubatama
- Hypoponera opaciceps
- Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1857)
- Hypoponera ragusai (Emery, 1894)
- Hypoponera sauteri
- Hypoponera zwaluwenburgi
- Leptanilla japonica
- Leptanilla kubotai
- Leptanilla morimotoi
- Leptanilla oceanica
- Leptanilla okinawensis Terayama, 2013
- Leptanilla tanakai
- Myrmica yezomonticola Terayama, 2013
- Nylanderia teranishii (Santschi, 1937)
- Odontomachus kuroiwae Matsumura, 1912
- Paraparatrechina sakuya Terayama, 2013
- Polyrhachis dives
- Polyrhachis lamellidens
- Polyrhachis latona
- Polyrhachis moesta
- Probolomyrmex longinodus
- Probolomyrmex okinawensis
- Proceratium itoi
- Proceratium japonicum
- Proceratium morisitai
- Proceratium watasei
- Protanilla izanagi Terayama, 2013
- Stenamma nipponense
- Stenamma owstoni
- Strumigenys hiroshimensis
- Strumigenys lacunosa Lin & Wu, 1996
- Strumigenys rostrataeformis
Syllophopsis
- Syllophopsis sechellensis (Emery, 1894)
- Temnothorax mekira Terayama & Kubota, 2011
- Tetramorium caespitum japonicum Röszler, 1936
- Vollenhovia amamiana
- Vollenhovia benzai
- Vollenhovia emeryi
- Vollenhovia nipponica
- Vollenhovia okinawana
- Vollenhovia sakishimana
- Vollenhovia yambaru
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