Bothroponera rubiginosa

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka. Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 * . Ponera rubiginosa Emery, 1889b: 498 (w.) MYANMAR.
 * Wheeler, W.M. 1928c: 5 (q.); Imai, et al. 1984: 5 (k.).
 * Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901a: 46;
 * combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 309;
 * combination in Bothroponera: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 36; Emery, 1895k: 459; Wheeler, W.M. 1928c: 5; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 50; Joma & Mackay, 2013: 2; Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 36; Emery, 1895k: 459; Forel, 1899d: 326; Bingham, 1903: 99; Emery, 1911d: 77; Wheeler, W.M. 1928c: 5; Wheeler, W.M. 1930h: 59; Mukerjee, 1934: 3; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 50, 72 (combinations in Bothroponera, Ponera, respectively); Bolton, 1995b: 309; Tiwari, 1999: 27; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 108; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 61; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 48.

Description
Worker

Bingham (1903): Dull opaque black, the mandibles, antennae and legs light red, the posterior margins of the abdominal segments and the pygidium reddish yellow. Head, thorax and abdomen finely, very closely reticulate-punctate, covered with a fine sericeous hoary pubescence; the abdomen slightly shining. Head, without the mandibles, a little longer than broad, posteriorly widely emarginate, the posterior lateral angles well defined but not produced; mandibles opaque, punctured; clypeus transverse, medially somewhat sharply carinate. Thorax short, shorter than the abdomen, massive, convex in front, rounded above, the obliquely truncate apex of the metanotum almost submargined: legs stout, densely pubescent. Node of the pedicel a little broader than long, rounded above, and somewhat roundly truncate anteriorly, posteriorly abruptly truncate, vertical and flat; abdomen cylindrical, long and massive.

Length: 5 mm

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Dias R. K. S., K. R. K. A. Kosgamage, and H. A. W. S. Peiris. 2012. The Taxonomy and Conservation Status of Ants (Order: Hymenoptera, Family: Formicidae) in Sri Lanka. In: The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka; Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora. Weerakoon, D.K. & S. Wijesundara Eds., Ministry of Environment, Colombo, Sri Lanka. p11-19.
 * Dias R. K. S., and K. R. K. Anuradha Kosgamage. 2012. Occurrence and species diversity of ground-dwelling worker ants (Family: Formicidae) in selected lands in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. J. Sci. Univ. Kelaniya 7: 55-72.
 * Imai H. T., C. Baroni Urbani, M. Kubota, G. P. Sharma, M. H. Narasimhanna, B. C. Das, A. K. Sharma, A. Sharma, G. B. Deodikar, V. G. Vaidya, and M. R. Rajasekarasetty. 1984. Karyological survey of Indian ants. Japanese Journal of Genetics 59: 1-32.
 * Tiwari, R.N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4):1-96