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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Ponerinae » Ponerini » Brachyponera » Asian Needle Ant (Brachyponera chinensis)

Species Brachyponera chinensis - Asian Needle Ant

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Internet References

Slender ants w/ prickly larvae - Brachyponera chinensis - female

What kind of ants? - Brachyponera chinensis

Pachycondyla (Brachyponera) chinensis (Emery) - Brachyponera chinensis - female

Brachyponera chinensis worker - Brachyponera chinensis - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)

Family Formicidae (Ants)

Subfamily Ponerinae

Tribe Ponerini

Genus Brachyponera

Species chinensis (Asian Needle Ant)

Other Common Names

oo-hari-ari (Japan)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pachycondyla chinensis

Explanation of Names

Brachyponera chinensis (Emery 1895)

Range

Accidentally introduced to North America from Asia. First detected in DeKalb County, GA around 1932; now found from Connecticut south to northern Florida, west to Alabama and Tennessee

Habitat

Dark, damp places; usually nest in moist, rotten wood or in soil under objects.

Food

small arthropods

Remarks

Stings of this species have been documented to elicit anaphalactic reactions in a small percentage of victims.

Has become the dominant ant species in some forested and urban habitats in South Carolina, excluding beneficial native ants.

Internet References

Ants of North America

Formicidae of Mississippi and Alabama

Clemson Cooperative Extension

A New (Old), Invasive Ant in the Hardwood Forests of Eastern North America and Its Potentially Widespread Impacts PLoS ONE Online journal article.

Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 14 September, 2007 - 11:30am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Phillip Harpootlian, Chuck Entz, James C. Trager, v belov
Last updated 23 August, 2015 - 9:18am

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