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Gauromyrmex acanthinus

Description

Gauromyrmex acanthinus (Karavaiev, 1935)

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, near BT05, 1.35386, 103.77988, 23 Aug 2017, W. Wang leg., WW-SG17-018, ZRC _ HYM_0001747; same locality and collector as previous, 1 Nov 2017, ZRC _EnT00047952.

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated with primary or old secondary forest in a single locality. In one instance, the ants were found nesting under the bark of a very large living tree. They were also observed in large dead logs or fallen rotting branches.

Notes

Published as part of Hamer, Matthew T., Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung, Tse, Cheung Yau Leo, Silva, Thiago S. R. & Guénard, Benoit, 2022, Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy, pp. 1-152 in Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) (e 015006) 15 on page 82, DOI: 10.20362/am.015006, http://zenodo.org/record/15473703

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZRC
Event date
2017-11-01
Verbatim event date
2017-11-01
Scientific name authorship
Karavaiev
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Gauromyrmex
Species
acanthinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gauromyrmex acanthinus (Karavaiev, 1935) sec. Hamer, Lee, Tse, Silva & Guénard, 2022

References

  • Karavaiev V, 1935. Neue Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet, nebst Revision einiger Formen. Treubia 15: 57-118.