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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.477.8775

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DFE4A6FC-7728-4576-A1F4-BD1D38173811

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/786D116A-2009-8A65-923C-602D18348887

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scientific name

Recurvidris kemneri (Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Recurvidris kemneri (Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954) View in CoL 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Recurvidris