Lordomyrma, Emery, 1897

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 : 82-83

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3104-FFF7-FD73-7EE3FD20FD57
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scientific name	Lordomyrma
status

Treatment

Lordomyrma View in CoL cf.sp.7.of.SKY (*excluded from official named species count)

Material examined. Queens , males and workers, Mandai, Northern Node, 1.40842, 103.78319, 54 m a.s.l., 25 Jul 2019, J. Tan & S. Tang leg., JTNC-MIC-005, ZRC _ ENT00013559 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Mandai Bike Trail , 1.40469, 103.77653, 10 Mar 2016, M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _ ENT00000690 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Mandai Track , 4 Jan 2017, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ ENT00027990 View Materials ; Pulau Ubin , 12 Jan 2015, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00000980 View Materials ; Upper Thomson Road , 11 Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0000997.

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New genus record.

Localities. Mandai; Pulau Ubin; Upper Thomson Road.

Habitat/Ecology. This species was collected from old or mature secondary forests, including abandoned plantation forest. The ants were sometimes found nesting in fallen rotting wood, logs or tree branches.

Remarks. This is the first record of the genus Lordomyrma in Singapore; unfortunately, we were unable to identify local specimens to known species at the time of writing. This species should be closely related to L. reticulata or L. azumai based on general habitus and strong rugulose-reticulate sculpture. It is most similar morphologically to L. idianale that was described from the Philippines, but with small nodules on the pronotal humeri amongst other more subtle differences.