Pseudoneoponera insularis brevior

Pseudoneoponera insularis brevior
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Pseudoneoponera
Species:	P. insularis
Subspecies:	P. insularis brevior
Trinomial name
	Pseudoneoponera insularis brevior; (Forel, 1901)

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea.

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.

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

brevior. Ponera (Bothroponera) insularis var. brevior Forel, 1901h: 45 (w.) BORNEO (Indonesia: Kalimantan).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Indonesia: Kalimantan, “Süd-Ost-Borneo”, Tandjong (F. Suck).
- Type-depository: MHNG?
- [Note: collection was described from Hamburg Natural History Museum, destroyed in World War II; Forel may have retained specimen(s).]
- Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1911d: 76;
- combination in Bothroponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 55;
- combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 303;
- combination in Pseudoneoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 135.
- Subspecies of insularis: Emery, 1911d: 76; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 55; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 303; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 57.
- Distribution: Indonesia (Kalimantan).

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 303, Combination in Pachycondyla)
Forel, A. 1901b. Formiciden aus dem Bismarck-Archipel, auf Grundlage des von Prof. Dr. F. Dahl gesammelten Materials. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 2: 4-37. (page 45, 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).
Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63: 43-147 (page 55, Combination in Bothroponera)