Monomorium floricola ( Jerdon, 1851 )

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, Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) 15, pp. 1-152 : 85

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474320
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3101-FFF1-FF67-7EE3FB6BF9B7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Monomorium floricola ( Jerdon, 1851 )
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Monomorium floricola ( Jerdon, 1851) View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Batok East , 1.34304, 103.76235, Sep-Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., trunk pitfall, ZRC _HYM_0001282-1283; Commonwealth Road , 1.31115, 103.78171, 22-24 Nov 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ HYM_0001286-1287; Kranji Road , 1.42638, 103.75413, 1-3 Nov 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001288-1289; queens, males and workers, National University of Singapore campus (Clementi/Kent Ridge, multiple sites), Apr-Sep 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, ZRC _BDP (multiple); Pulau Ubin , 7 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., ZRC _HYM_0000380-381; queens, males and workers, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , 28 Mar 2018, W. Wang leg., WW-SG18- Mono 1, ZRC _ ENT00000959 View Materials ; queens and workers, same locality as previous, 8 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., SG14-SKY-34, ZRC _HYM_0000440; Sunset Way, 1.32609, 103.77187, 21-23 Sep 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001280-1281; Temasek Polytechnic, adjacent waste woodland, 1.34239, 103.93598, 13-15 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001284-1285; Upper Thomson Nature Park, 1.38311, 103.79839, Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001290-1292 GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Non-types, J.K. Wetterer leg. ( USNM) – Amber Road (Katong), 28 Jul 2014, vials #331, 345, 351; Riverside Park (Kallang), 29 Jul 2014, vial #372; City Hall, by church, 29 Jul 2014, vial #374; Outram Park, by MRT station, 29 Jul 2014, vial #379; Queenstown, 29 Jul 2014, vial #383; Promenade, by MRT station, 4 Aug 2014, vial #468.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924); Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Bukit Batok East; Commonwealth Road; Kranji Road; National University of Singapore campus (Clementi/Kent Ridge); Pulau Ubin; Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve; Sunset Way; beside Temasek Polytechnic; Upper Thomson Nature Park.

Habitat/Ecology. This species appears very common in Singapore and was often found in a broad variety of different habitats across the disturbance spectrum, including: abandoned plantation and waste woodland secondary forests, disturbed secondary forest fragments in urban or semi-urban settings, gardens, mangroves, sometimes even in urban infrastructure including buildings. In mangroves, nests were found in bark of dead tree trunks, and also in dead twigs on trees, usually with multiple queens per colony. Colonies have also been found in hollow twigs of mangosteen trees and in withered bamboo.

Remarks. This species is a recognized common tramp ant widespread throughout the whole world, mostly in warm tropical regions.