''Epelysidris brocha'' is the only species of

ant Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22 ...

in the genus ''Epelysidris''. Described by

Barry Bolton Barry Bolton is an English myrmecologist, an expert on the classification, systematics, and taxonomy of ants, who long worked at the Natural History Museum, London. He is known especially for monographs on African and Asian ants, and for encyclo ...

in 1987 in

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

, the species is only known from soil in tropical and moss rainforests, based on two known specimen collections.

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* Myrmicinae Monotypic ant genera Insects of Borneo Insects of Indonesia Insects described in 1987 {{myrmicinae-stub