New record of the Ponerine ant Buniapone amblyops (Emery, 1887) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Nepal

Abstract

Buniapone Schmidt & Shattuck 2014 is a monotypic and morphologically distinct hypogeic ant genus found only in Southern and Southeast Asia. The Ponerine ant Buniapone amblyops (Emery 1887) has been recorded for the first time from Nepal. The specimen was hand-collected in Pokhara (28.21361111 N, 83.97222222 E, 840 m asl) from animal dung on the ground. Morphological characteristics of Nepalese B. amblyops worker, distribution, and ecology are discussed.

Myrmicine ants of Nepal with six new records and updated species list (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)

“…Myrmicinae is the most successful of the 16 extant ant subfamilies in terms of ecological diversity and species richness, with 147 genera and 7075 extant species known throughout the world (Bolton 2022). Nepalese Myrmicine ants contain 21 genera and 63 species, making it the most diverse ant subfamily in the country, out of the 56 genera and 147 species of ants known from Nepal Subedi 2021;Subedi et al 2021a, b, c;Subedi et al 2022). The subfamily Myrmicinae, first described by Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau in 1835, belongs to the Formicoid clade.…”

Generic and species richness of ant fauna in different provinces of Nepal (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

“…Furthering the knowledge, local researchers have recently made substantial contributions to Nepalese myrmecology. Since the publication of a book "Insect diversity in Nepal" (Thapa 2015) and an updated checklist of Nepalese ants , a few more studies focusing on specific genera such as Buniapone (Subedi 2021), Cerapachys and Parasyscia (Subedi et al 2021a), Leptogenys (Subedi et al 2022a), and Tetraponera (Subedi et al 2022b) and the subgenus Orthonotomyrmex (Subedi et al 2021b) have included 15 species not previously recorded from Nepal. In addition, five genera and nine species that are new records for Nepal were published in a paper on forest ants (Subedi et al 2021c).…”