Dorylus laevigatus
Description
Dorylus laevigatus (Smith, 1857)
Material examined. Lower Peirce Reservoir, Forest A, 7 Aug 1990, Zoology Dept. 3 rd year project, ZRC _ ENT00000191; Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Venus Loop, SPT15, 1.355491, 103.815777, 15 Jun 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., subterranean pitfall trap, ZRC _ ENT00000671; Rifle Range Road, 6 Dec 2017, Sk. Yamane leg., SG17-SKY-02, ZRC _ ENT00000879. Male alates; 3 Pandan Valley, 16 Sep 2016, Y.C. Tay leg., ZRC _HYM_0001734; Chun Tin Road, 24 Dec 2009, C.M. Yang leg., ZRC _ ENT00014107-14108; Ang Mo Kio Drive, ITE Headquarters, 29 Sep 2020, H.F. Loo & S.K. Koh leg., on carpet in pantry, ZRC _ ENT00028565; Pasir Panjang Road, 20 Jan 2021, J. Ho leg., ZRC _ ENT00047779.
Material not physically examined. Unknown.
Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [as Dorylus (Dichthadia) levigatus var. breviceps].
Localities. (Only localities where workers were found are given here, as male occurrences are not accurate inferences of nest locations) Central Catchment Nature Reserve; Lower Peirce Reservoir; Rifle Range Road.
Habitat/Ecology. Primary and/or mature secondary forest — colonies were found in soil.
Remarks. Considered a kind of Old World ‘army ant’ — a general term for ants characterized by cooperative group foraging/predatory tactics and nomadic behaviour. Solitary male alates have been reported from urban residential or commercial areas away from forested areas — these are isolated incidences of males dispersed far from their original nest sources.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZRC
- Material sample ID
- ENT00000191 , ENT00000671 , ENT00000879 , ENT00014107-14108 , ENT00028565 , ENT00047779
- Event date
- 1990-08-07 , 2015-06-15 , 2016-09-16 , 2017-12-06 , 2020-09-29 , 2021-01-20
- Verbatim event date
- 1990-08-07 , 2015-06-15 , 2016-09-16 , 2017-12-06 , 2020-09-29 , 2021-01-20
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Dorylus
- Species
- laevigatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dorylus laevigatus (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.