Brachyponera sennaarensis decolor

Brachyponera sennaarensis decolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Brachyponera
Species:	B. sennaarensis
Subspecies:	B. sennaarensis decolor
Trinomial name
Brachyponera sennaarensis decolor (Santschi, 1921)

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Congo (type locality), Senegal.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• decolor. Euponera (Brachyponera) sennaarensis var. decolor Santschi, 1921c: 114 (w.) CONGO.
  • Type-material: 7 syntype workers.
  • Type-locality: Congo (“Congo français”): Minduli (A. Weiss).
  • Type-depository: NHMB.
  • Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 304;
  • combination in Brachyponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 81.
  • Subspecies of sennaarensis: Bolton, 1995b: 304.
  • Distribution: Congo.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 304, Combination in Pachycondyla)
• Santschi, F. 1921c. Quelques nouveaux Formicides africains. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 61: 113-122 (doi:10.5281/ZENODO.14442) (page 114, worker described)
• 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).