Leptogenys diminuta
Description
Leptogenys diminuta (Smith, 1857)
Material examined. Males and workers, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, 30 Sep 1964, D.H. Murphy, A-292-11, DHM-SG64- Lep 1, ZRC _ ENT00027949; same locality and collector as previous, Fern Valley contour, 14 May 1967, DHM-SG67- Lep 1, ZRC _ ENT00027950; same locality as previous, 1965, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00048393.
Material not physically examined. Unknown.
Literature. None. New record (see Remarks).
Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated with primary or mature secondary forests in Singapore. Individuals were found in rotting wood, under bark of fallen dead trees, or in leaf litter and soil debris.
Remarks. Supposed historical literature records of this species in Singapore (i.e., Viehmeyer 1916, Overbeck 1924) actually reported specimens from Gunong Angsi in Malaysia, not Singapore. This error has unfortunately been perpetuated in contemporary online databases and some secondary literature sources, e.g. Xu & He (2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZRC
- Material sample ID
- ENT00027949 , ENT00027950 , ENT00048393
- Event date
- 1964-09-30 , 1967-05-14
- Verbatim event date
- 1964-09-30 , 1967-05-14
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Leptogenys
- Species
- diminuta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptogenys diminuta (Smith, 1857) sec. Hamer, Lee, Tse, Silva & Guénard, 2022
References
- Smith F, 1857. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2: 42-88.
- Viehmeyer H, 1916. Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Series A, 81 (8): 108-168.
- Overbeck H, 1924. A list of ants from Singapore and neighbouring places. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 2 (1): 25-40.
- Xu ZH and He QJ, 2015. Taxonomic review of the ponerine ant genus Leptogenys Roger, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a key to the Oriental species. Myrmecological News 21: 137-161.