Gauromyrmex acanthinus ( Karavaiev, 1935 )

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 : 82

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474297
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3104-FFF4-FF0F-7B83FDB0FC77
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Gauromyrmex acanthinus ( Karavaiev, 1935 )
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Gauromyrmex acanthinus ( Karavaiev, 1935) View in CoL

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.