Brachyponera luteipes ( Mayr, 1862 )

Hamer, Matthew T., Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung, Tse, Cheung Yau Leo, Silva, Thiago S. R. & Guénard, Benoit, 2022, Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy, Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) 15, pp. 1-152 : 116

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474516
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3126-FFD6-FF0F-7EBCFCD3FD58
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Brachyponera luteipes ( Mayr, 1862 )
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Brachyponera luteipes ( Mayr, 1862) View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , plot III-2, 28 Apr 2016, D.J. Court leg., pitfall trap, ZRC _ ENT00048448 View Materials ; Mandai forest , 7 Jun 2018, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00047995 View Materials ; queen and workers, Mandai, Northern Node , 1.40842, 103.78319, 54 m a.s.l., 25 Jul 2019, J. Tan & S. Tang leg., JTST-MIS-009, ZRC _ ENT00013871 View Materials GoogleMaps ; same locality as previous, 4 Sep 2019, J. Tan & N. Chin leg., WW-SG19-008, ZRC _ ENT00027941 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Harbourfront, Jul-Aug 2014, J.K. Wetterer leg., vials #386, 469 471 ( JKWC).

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Harbourfront; Mandai.

Habitat/Ecology. This species was mainly found in old or mature secondary forests in Singapore, sometimes at bases of trees at forest or trail edges. Nests were collected from fallen rotting wood or large branches, sometimes in root-soil-substrate matrices at bases of trees.

Remarks. Morphologically very similar to the presumably widespread invasive B. chinensis , B. luteipes may be differentiated from the former based on characters illustrated in Yashiro et al. (2010). An affiliated unnamed species, currently identified as Brachyponera sp.1 .of.SKY (= Pachycondyla sp. 28.of.SKY), was found to be common across secondary forests and seemingly more widespread than B. luteipes .