Head, lateral and dorsal view of a Brachyponera chinensis worker collected near Lake Como by Andrea Montechiarini (scale bars: 0.5 mm) and distribution map of the Italian records of this species: in blue, the site near Naples reported by Menchetti et al. (2022), in red the new Lake Como site. Map from Stadia Maps (stadiamaps.com) and Stamen Design (stamen.com).