Revision of the Chinese species of the genus Brachyponera Emery, 1900 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to the world species of the genus

By

Chen, Chao
Yu, Yu
Yi, Chuan-Hui

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1230

Pages

247--286

Subjects

High-resolution illustrations , new combination , new species , phylogenetics , ponerinae , revision , taxonomy , Yunnan Province

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1230.140159

 

Abstract

The species of the ant genus Brachyponera Emery, 1900 are reviewed based on the morphological characters of the worker caste. Brachyponera tianzun (Terayama, 2009) is transferred to Euponera as Euponera tianzun (Terayama, 2009), comb. nov. Four new species, B. paraarcuatasp. nov., B. xuisp. nov., B. candidasp. nov., and B. myopssp. nov., are described from China based on the worker caste. Phylogenetic trees were constructed for eight known and four new species, and genetic distances were calculated. High-resolution images of B. batak (Yamane, 2007), B. flavipes (Yamane, 2007), B. nakasujii (Yashiro et al., 2010), B. pilidorsalis (Yamane, 2007), B. wallacea (Yamane, 2007), and B. brevidorsa Xu, 1994 are provided. Keys are provided to both the eight species groups and 23 known species of the world based on the worker caste.