Metapone murphyi Wang, Yamada & Eguchi, 2019

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 : 84

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474315
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scientific name	Metapone murphyi Wang, Yamada & Eguchi, 2019
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Metapone murphyi Wang, Yamada & Eguchi, 2019 View in CoL

Material examined. Holotype, Pulau Sakra, 7 Mar 1981, D.H. Murphy leg., DHM-SG81- Meta 1, ZRC _ ENT00000878 View Materials ; paratypes, worker, queens and males, same locality and collecting data as holotype, ZRC _HYM_0000016.

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Wang et al. (2019).

Localities. Pulau Sakra

Habitat/Ecology. The type series of this species was found in a decayed coconut stump, on an offshore island that has long since been heavily developed for industrial purposes.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore. At the time of writing, the only known record of this species is that of the type series from Singapore. Considering the elusive termitophilous nature of the genus Metapone , M. murphyi might be thriving elsewhere undiscovered on the main island or other offshore islands in association with termite nests.