Brachyponera
Emery, 1900
valid
feminine
Brachyponera
Emery, 1900b:
315
[as subgenus of Euponera]
Type-subspecies:
Euponera luteipes croceicornis (obsolete combination of Brachyponera croceicornis), by monotypy.
- [Brachyponera also described as new by Emery, 1901b: 43.]
- Type-species not Ponera sennaarensis : unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1901b: 43; repeated by Emery, 1911e: 84; Wheeler, 1911g: 160; Wheeler, 1922: 777; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628; Smith, 1943e: 282; Smith, 1951c: 785; Brown, 1958h: 21; Wilson, 1958g: 346; Bolton, 1973a: 335; Smith, 1979: 1341; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 23.]
- Brachyponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
- Brachyponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1911e: 83; Forel, 1917: 237 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; subsequent authors.
- Brachyponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Odontomachus genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
- Brachyponera as subgenus of Euponera: Emery, 1900b: 315; Emery, 1901b: 43; Forel, 1907j: 271; Emery, 1909d: 366; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 83; Santschi, 1914b: 50; Arnold, 1915: 72; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 649; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628.
- Brachyponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Snelling, 1981: 389 [provisional]; Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Bolton, 2003: 167; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 3.
- Brachyponera as genus: Bingham, 1903: 101; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wilson, 1958g: 346; Bolton, 1973a: 335; Smith, 1979: 1341; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 23; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256; Ogata, 1987a: 116; Taylor, 1987a: 9; Ogata, 1987a: 116; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
Obsolete classifications
Genus Brachyponera catalogues
Emery, 1901b: 47; Emery, 1911e: 83 (Euponera (Brachyponera)); Wheeler, 1922: 777 (Afrotropical Euponera (Brachyponera)); Smith, 1951c: 785 (North America); Smith, 1979: 1341 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 23 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 9 (Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand); Bolton, 1995b: 302 (as part of Pachycondyla); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 80 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 221 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).
Genus Brachyponera references
Bingham, 1903: 101 (India, Sri Lanka, Burma species keys); Emery, 1911e: 83 (Euponera (Brachyponera) diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 72 (South Africa Euponera (Brachyponera)); Creighton, 1950a: 45 (Nearctic Euponera (Brachyponera) species key); Brown, 1958h: 21 (New Zealand Brachyponera); Wilson, 1958g: 346 (Melanesia Brachyponera species key); Ogata, 1987a: 116 (diagnosis, Japan); Morisita et al., 1989: 19 (Japan Brachyponera species); Xu, 1994b: 182 (China Brachyponera species key); Yamane, 2007: 652 (Pachycondyla nigrita species group key); Eguchi et al., 2014: 27 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77 (diagnosis, synopsis); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 220 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 254 (brief male diagnosis); Richter et al., 2020: 133 (cranial anatomy)
Genus Brachyponera references note
Some Brachyponera references are listed under Pachycondyla, sensu lato.
Citations
- Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159.
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
- Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1973a. The ant genera of West Africa: a synonymic synopsis with keys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 27:317-368. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1994. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla, Emeryopone and Ponera attributed to Brown.]. P. 164 in: Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp.
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
- Eguchi, K.; Viet, B. T.; Yamane, S. 2014. Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part II—Cerapachyinae, Aenictinae, Dorylinae, Leptanillinae, Amblyoponinae, Ponerinae, Ectatomminae and Proceratiinae. Zootaxa 3860 (1):1-46. 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.1.1 PDF
- Emery, C. 1900b. 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. PDF
- Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. PDF
- Emery, C. 1909d. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil VIII. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1909:355-376. PDF
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
- Fisher, B. L.; Bolton, B. 2016. Ants of the world. Ants of Africa and Madagascar. A guide to the genera. Berkeley: University of California Press, ix + 503 pp.
- Forel, A. 1907j. Formicidae. In: Michaelsen, W.; Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) 1907. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7. Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310. PDF
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF
- Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1989. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. I. Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, Pseudomyrmecinae, Dorylinae, and Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 42 pp.
- Ogata, K. 1987a. A generic synopsis of the poneroid complex of the family Formicidae in Japan (Hymenoptera). Part 1. Subfamilies Ponerinae and Cerapachyinae. Esakia 25:97-132. PDF
- Richter, A.; Hita Garcia, F.; Keller, R. A.; Billen, J.; Economo, E. P.; Beutel, R. G. 2020. Comparative analysis of worker head anatomy of Formica and Brachyponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 78:133-170. 10.26049/ASP78-1-2020-06 PDF
- Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
- Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF
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- Smith, M. R. 1943e. A generic and subgeneric synopsis of the male ants of the United States. American Midland Naturalist 30:273-321. PDF
- Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
- Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) 1981. Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp.
- Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 111:255-264. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1911g. A list of the type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 21:157-175. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
- Wilson, E. O. 1958g. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119:303-371. PDF
- Xu, Z. 1994b. A taxonomic study of the ant genus Brachyponera Emery in southwestern China (Hymenoptera Formicidae Ponerinae). [In Chinese.]. Journal of Southwest Forestry College 14:181-185. PDF
- Yamane, S. 2007. Pachycondyla nigrita and related species in Southeast Asia. Pp. 650-663 in: Snelling, R. R.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. (eds.) 2007. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E.O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:690 pp. PDF
Extant: 18 valid species, 5 valid subspecies
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