Brachyponera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Ponerinae
Tribus: Ponerini
Genus:
Species: B. arcuata – B. atrata – B. batak – B. brevidorsa – B. candida – B. chinensis – B. christmasi – B. croceicornis – B. flavipes – B. jerdonii – B. lutea – B. luteipes – B. nakasujii – B. myops – B. nigrita – B. obscurans – B. paraarcuata – B. pilidorsalis – B. sennaarensis – B. tianzun – B. wallacei – B. xui

Name

Brachyponera Emery, 1900: 315

Type species: Euponera (Brachyponera) croceicornis, now Brachyponera croceicornis, by monotypy.

Synonymy

Euponera (Brachyponera) Emery, 1900: 315
- Brachyponera — raised to genus: Bingham, 1903: 101; Wilson, 1958: 346
- Brachyponera — junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Snelling, R.R. 1981: 389; Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164
- Brachyponera — revived from synonymy: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77

References

Primary references

Emery, C. 1900. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23: 310–338 [original description: p. 315]
Chen, C., Yu, Y. & Yi, C-H. 2025. Revision of the Chinese species of the genus Brachyponera Emery, 1900 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to the world species of the genus. ZooKeys 1230: 247–286. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1230.140159 Reference page.