Brachymyrmex

The species of this largely tropical genus are small to minute, drab colored and the integument is so thin that it is apt to collapse when a specimen dries. Their small size and the relative lack of morphologically distinctive features has meant this has always been a taxonomically difficult group.

Species richness
Species richness by country based on regional taxon lists (countries with darker colours are more species-rich). View Data



Nomenclature

 *  BRACHYMYRMEX [Formicinae: Plagiolepidini]
 * Brachymyrmex Mayr, 1868b: 163. Type-species: Brachymyrmex patagonicus, by monotypy.
 * Brachymyrmex senior synonym of Bryscha: Smith, D.R. 1979: 1424.
 * BRACHYPONERA [junior synonym of Pachycondyla]
 * Brachyponera Emery, 1900c: 315 [as subgenus of Euponera]. Type-species: Euponera (Brachyponera) croceicornis, by monotypy.
 * [Brachyponera also described as new by Emery, 1901a: 43. Type-species not Ponera sennaarensis, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1901a: 43, repeated in Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 160, Emery, 1911d: 84, Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 777, Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628, Wilson, 1958d: 346; Bolton, 1973a: 335 and Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 23.]
 * Brachyponera as subgenus of Euponera: Emery, 1911d: 83; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 649.
 * Brachyponera raised to genus: Bingham, 1903: 101; Wilson, 1958d: 346.
 * Brachyponera junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164.
 * BRYSCHA [junior synonym of Brachymyrmex]
 * Bryscha Santschi, 1923b: 652 [as subgenus of Brachymyrmex]. Type-species: Brachymyrmex pilipes, by original designation.
 * Bryscha junior synonym of Brachymyrmex: Smith, D.R. 1979: 1424.
 * Bryscha junior synonym of Brachymyrmex: Smith, D.R. 1979: 1424.