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Brachyponera christmasi
| Brachyponera christmasi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Brachyponera |
| Species group: | obscurans |
| Species: | B. christmasi |
| Binomial name | |
| Brachyponera christmasi (Donisthorpe, 1935)
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Christmas Island (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
| Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species. |
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Estimated Abundance
| Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- christmasi. Euponera (Mesoponera) christmasi Donisthorpe, 1935: 630 (w.) CHRISTMAS I.
- Type-material: 6 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: Christmas I.: ii.1934 (F. Harms).
- Type-depository: BMNH.
- Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 304;
- combination in Pachycondyla (Brachyponera): Framenau & Thomas, 2008: 79;
- combination in Brachyponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 80.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 304; Framenau & Thomas, 2008: 79.
- Distribution: Christmas I.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla attributed to Brown.] Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 304, Combination in Pachycondyla)
- Chen, C., Yu, Y., Yi, C. 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).
- Donisthorpe, H. 1935. The ants of Christmas Island. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(15): 629-635.
- 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, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Donisthorpe, Horace. 1935. The Ants of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 25:629-635.
- Donisthorpe, Horace. 1935. The Ants of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ser. 10: xv. 629-635.
- Framenau V.W., and M.L. Thomas. 2008. Ants of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean); identification and distribution. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 45-85.