Brachyponera luteipes

Identification
See Brachyponera nakasujii for details about closely related species and the Caste section below for images that can help with determinations.

Males are easily distinguished from Brachyponera chinensis in having the body darkly colored and the mandibles well developed (Japanese Ant Image Database).

Distribution
This species was reported from Auckland, New Zealand, by Taylor (1961) but it is no longer present it the country (Don, 2007).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: New Zealand. Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia (Federated States of), Palau, Philippines, Singapore. Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Island, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. Palaearctic Region: China, Japan.

Japan (Nansei Is).

Nomenclature

 * . Ponera luteipes Mayr, 1862: 722 (w.q.) INDIA (Nicobar Is).
 * Forel, 1900d: 326 (m.); Imai & Yosida, 1964: 64 (k.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976a: 47 (l.).
 * Combination in Euponera (Brachyponera): Emery, 1900c: 315; Emery, 1911d: 84; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 56;
 * combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 307;
 * combination in Brachyponera: Bingham, 1903: 101; Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 80.
 * Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 16; Mayr, 1865: 70 (redescription); Mayr, 1879: 663 (in key); Forel, 1885b: 177; Dalla Torre, 1893: 40; Emery, 1893f: 242; Emery, 1893g: 262; Emery, 1895k: 459; Mayr, 1897: 422; Forel, 1900d: 326; Emery, 1900d: 668; Bingham, 1903: 101; Forel, 1903d: 400; Forel, 1904c: 20; Forel, 1905c: 6; Forel, 1906b: 91; Forel, 1908a: 1; Forel, 1909d: 221; Wheeler, W.M. 1909d: 339; Emery, 1911d: 84; Forel, 1911a: 23; Forel, 1911b: 194; Forel, 1911i: 216; Forel, 1912a: 49; Forel, 1913f: 184; Forel, 1913k: 8; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 56; Santschi, 1920h: 159; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 242; Crawley, 1924: 384; Santschi, 1924c: 97; Karavaiev, 1925b: 124; Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, 1925: 68; Wheeler, W.M. 1927b: 42; Wheeler, W.M. 1927d: 1; Wheeler, W.M. 1927h: 84; Wheeler, W.M. 1928c: 6; Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 59; Mukerjee, 1930: 151; Wheeler, W.M. 1930h: 60; Kutter, 1932: 207; Wheeler, W.M. 1937a: 21; Menozzi, 1939a: 328; Teranishi, 1940: 56; Donisthorpe, 1943b: 197; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 63; Baltazar, 1966: 244; Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 103; Taylor, 1987a: 10; Wu, J. & Wang, 1992: 1302; Radchenko, 1993a: 81; Xu, 1994b: 182; Bolton, 1995b: 307; Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 39; Tang, J., Li, et al. 1995: 32; Tiwari, 1999: 31; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 286; Zhou, 2001b: 52; Zhang, W. & Zheng, 2002: 218; Imai, et al. 2003: 211; Lin & Wu, 2003: 68; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 31; Zhou, 2006: 580; Don, 2007: 189; Clouse, 2007b: 269; Terayama, 2009: 104; Mohanraj, et al. 2010: 7; Yashiro, et al. 2010: 42; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 108; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 57; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 61; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 49.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus continentalis.

Description
Worker

Bingham (1903): Jet-black, shining; mandibles, flagellum of the antennae, the legs and apex of the abdomen testaceous brown. Pilosity very sparse, confined to a few erect pale hairs on the clypeus and mandibles and on the apex of and beneath the abdomen. Head, thorax and abdomen covered with a fine delicate silky whitish very short pubescence, and very finely reticulate-punctate, but not opaque. Head posteriorly slightly emarginate, the sides viewed from the front arched outwards: mandibles finely punctured; clypeus anteriorly with a broad medial lobe, the anterior margin of which is arched; antennae densely pubescent. Thorax rather massive, the metanotum markedly below the level of the pro- and mesonotum, its basal and apical truncate portions about equal. Node of the pedicel fiat in front and posteriorly, rounded above; abdomen rather massive.

Length: 3.5 - 4 mm

Queen

Bingham (1903): Similar to the worker but larger; antennae thicker, the scape proportionately shorter ; eyes much larger, ocelli present. Thorax and abdomen more massive.

Length: 4.5 mm

Male

Bingham (1903): "Of a dusky testaceous yellow. Wings long, lightly yellow, nervures and stigma of a brownish yellow. Rather smooth, subopaque, feebly pubescent ; flagellum of the antennae brown." (Forel.)

Length: 4 mm

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