Eurhopalothrix heliscata Wilson & Brown, 1985

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 : 81

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474289
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scientific name	Eurhopalothrix heliscata Wilson & Brown, 1985
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Eurhopalothrix heliscata Wilson & Brown, 1985 View in CoL

Material examined. Alate queen, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, BT 4, 1.35342, 103.77820, 1 Mar 2017, M.S. Foo leg., malaise trap, Reg. B 8274, ZRC _ BDP0072108 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Rifle Range Road , 6 Dec 2017, F. Ito leg., WW-SG17-024, ZRC _ ENT00000775 View Materials ; males, National University of Singapore ( NUS) campus, 6 Dec 2017, F. Ito leg., emerged in lab – May – Jun 2019, F117-143 ( SKYC) .

Material not physically examined. Paratype – CASENT0900938, ANTC20060 ( BMNH) .

Literature. Type – Wilson & Brown (1984).

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve ; NUS campus (Kent Ridge/Clementi); Rifle Range Road .

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated with primary and old/mature secondary forests in Singapore. Nests were typically found in soil under rotting wood or fallen logs.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore. The actual publication year of the article in which this species was first described is 1984, however 1985 appears to be the accepted publication year of the species in literature.