Brachyponera obscurans

A nest of B. obscurans from a secondary forest in Macau contained about 400 individuals. The nest was covered by abundant rotten wood-litter and leaf-litter in an area with very moist soil. This ant nest was adjacent to a termite colony (Macrotermes barneyi) found nesting in wood laying on the ground surface. (Leong 2017)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines. Malagasy Region: Mauritius. Oriental Region: India, Sri Lanka. Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 *  obscurans. Formica obscurans Walker, 1859: 372 (q.) SRI LANKA. Combination in Ponera: Donisthorpe, 1932b: 575; in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 308; in Brachyponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 80.