Myrmicaria arachnoides ( Smith, 1857 )

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 : 88

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474331

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Myrmicaria arachnoides ( Smith, 1857 )
status

 

Myrmicaria arachnoides ( Smith, 1857) View in CoL

Material examined. None available.

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924).

Localities. Bukit Timah Road

Habitat/Ecology. Alate queens and males were found at a lit-lamp in a garden; in the same garden, a dealate queen was also found in a small pasteboard cell on the underside of a leaf.

Remarks. At the time of writing, this species is only known from Singapore based on past literature records. A number of the alates collected at the same time by Overbeck were later on identified as the subspecies lutea and luteiventris respectively (see Viehmeyer 1922).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Myrmicaria

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