Br sil, adress e M. Audouin. Compound eyes well developed and produced above surrounding cranial surface. Posterior margin of propodeum varying from angulate to spine-shaped. Petiole with a distinct node, not overhung by gaster. Body cuticle hard, not thin and soft as in other Japanese dolichoderines.
Body surfaces with strong punctures in many species.
Most Palearctic and Oriental Dolichoderus species have traditionally been placed in a contained subgenus Hypoclinea. Many of these are arboreal, and take as main food items plant exudates or honey-dew produced by homopterous insects. Only one species, D. sibiricus, is known from Japan. We follow this usage. Editor of the descriptions Original text and English translation by Mamoru Terayama and Masao Kubota, edited by Kazuo Ogata and Robert W. Taylor.