Brachyponera

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
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: Brachyponera
Species: B. arcuata – B. atrata – B. batak – B. brevidorsa – B. chinensis – B. christmasi – B. croceicornis – B. flavipes – B. jerdonii – B. lutea – B. luteipes – B. nakasujii – B. nigrita – B. obscurans – B. pilidorsalis – B. sennaarensis – B. tianzun – B. wallacei
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]

Brachyponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae.
Distribution

The genus is natively distributed from Africa to southern Asia and Australia, with most species occurring in Southeast Asia. At least two species are invasive in other parts of the world. B. chinensis, the most studied Brachyponera species, has been introduced as an exotic ant in southeastern United States and New Zealand. The other invasive species, B. sennaarensis, is spreading through the Middle East.[2]
Description

The genus was first established as a subgenus of Euponera, when Emery (1900) described B. croceicornis.[3] Workers are small to medium in size (3–7 mm) and have triangular mandibles. Queens are similar to workers, but larger and winged.[2]
Species

Brachyponera arcuata (Karavaiev, 1925)
Brachyponera atrata (Karavaiev, 1925)
Brachyponera batak (Yamane, 2007)
Brachyponera brevidorsa Xu, 1994
Brachyponera chinensis (Emery, 1895)
Brachyponera christmasi (Donisthorpe, 1935)
Brachyponera croceicornis (Emery, 1900)
Brachyponera flavipes (Yamane, 2007)
Brachyponera jerdonii (Forel, 1900)
Brachyponera lutea (Mayr, 1862)
Brachyponera luteipes (Mayr, 1862)
Brachyponera mesoponeroides Radchenko, 1993
Brachyponera nakasujii (Yashiro, Matsuura, Guénard, Terayama & Dunn, 2010)
Brachyponera nigrita (Emery, 1895)
Brachyponera obscurans (Walker, 1859)
Brachyponera pilidorsalis (Yamane, 2007)
Brachyponera sennaarensis (Mayr, 1862)
Brachyponera tianzun (Terayama, 2009)
Brachyponera wallacei (Yamane, 2007)

References

Bolton, B. (2015). "Brachyponera". AntCat. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.
Emery, C.; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "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.