Recurvidris kemneri (Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954)

Liu, Cong, Guenard, Benoit, Garcia, Francisco Hita, Yamane, Seiki, Blanchard, Benjamin, Yang, Da-Rong & Economo, Evan, 2015, New records of ant species from Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 477, pp. 17-78 : 48-49

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Recurvidris kemneri (Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954) Figure 28

Material examined.

CHINA, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna: "Holy Hills" (21.919°N, 101.239°E), Secondary forest, 07.vi.2013, 1 worker, 670m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; Man Sai village (21.857°N, 101.277°E), Rubber plantation, 12.vi.2013, 3 workers, 710m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; Man Sai village (21.858°N, 101.276°E), Secondary forest, 12.vi.2013, 1 worker, 685m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; Man Sai village (21.860°N, 101.278°E), Secondary forest, 12.vi.2013, 1 worker, 680m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; Kilometer 55 station (21.963°N, 101.201°E), Rain forest, 10.vi.2013, 7 workers, 815m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu.

Distribution.

Widely distributed in the Austral-Asian and Indo-Malayan subregions (Figure 28C). This new northern-most record represents an important extension in the distribution of Recurvidris kemneri .

Taxonomic note.

The identification is based on Bolton’s (1992) key. Our material from Yunnan fits the re-description in the latter publication very well, even though the propodeal spines seem somewhat longer than in the material from Borneo. However, we consider this as a minor geographic variation.

Natural history.

Recurvidris kemneri has been collected from leaf litter from rain forest, secondary forest and rubber plantation, and little is known about its bionomics.