Discovery of the formerly Japan-endemic Ponera kohmoku Terayama, 1996 (Formicidae, Ponerinae) in Southeast China, and implications for understanding the ecology and biogeography of the species

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Calvin Leung, Tsz Kin, Leong, Chi Man (2023): Discovery of the formerly Japan-endemic Ponera kohmoku Terayama, 1996 (Formicidae, Ponerinae) in Southeast China, and implications for understanding the ecology and biogeography of the species. Asian Myrmecology (e 016008) 16: 1-11, DOI: 10.20362/am.016008, URL: dx.doi.org/10.20362/am.016008 ABSTRACT.

Ponera kohmoku is a species described in 1996 from Yaku-shima Island, and all known records to date have been limited to the southern portion of Japan. Here, new records of P. kohmoku are reported from Guangdong, Guangxi and Hong Kong in China, adding a fourth Ponera species to Hong Kong and Guangxi as well as the first nominal record of this genus to the Guangdong myrmecofauna. By integrating ecological information from past literature records of P. kohmoku with these new records from Southeast China, P. kohmoku is suggested to be a forest understory generalist in terms of habitat preference.