Revision of the Chinese species of the genus <i>Brachyponera</i> Emery, 1900 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to the world species of the genus.

ABSTRACT: The species of the ant genus Brachyponera Emery, 1900 are reviewed based on the morphological characters of the worker caste. Brachyponeratianzun (Terayama, 2009) is transferred to Euponera as Euponeratianzun (Terayama, 2009), comb. nov. Four new species, B.paraarcuata sp. nov., B.xui sp. nov., B.candida sp. nov., and B.myops sp. 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),

SUBMITTER: Chen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11907243 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature