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Species: Brachymyrmex australis   Forel, 1901 

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Brachymyrmex australis pullus

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2020)

Extant: 1 valid subspecies

Brachymyrmex minutus r. australis Forel, 1901g PDF: 302 (w.) BRAZIL. Neotropic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Raised to species: Santschi, 1922e PDF: 260.
See also: Santschi, 1923b PDF: 662.
Current subspecies: nominal plus B. a. pullus.
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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Uruguay
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in second growth wet forest, 1 times found in scrubby riparian vegetation, 1 times found in secondgrowth forest edge.

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times under loose bark, 2 times mit Orchideen, 1 times lebend eingeschleppt mit Orchideen, 1 times in dead wood on ground, 1 times collecting on one of the rock islands offshore, separated from land even at low.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 3 times search.

Elevations: collected from 5 - 1250 meters, 550 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1901-07-25 and 2007-07-15

Type specimens: syntype of Brachymyrmex australis: usnment00757156; syntype of Brachymyrmex australis curtus: casent0911596; syntype of Brachymyrmex longicornis: usnment00757144; type of Brachymyrmex longicornis: focol0009, focol0010



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