Pheidole singaporensis Özdikmen, 2010

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 : 94

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scientific name	Pheidole singaporensis Özdikmen, 2010
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Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , 15 Aug 2011, J. Koh leg., Winkler extraction, ZRC _ ENT00000893 View Materials ; same locality as previous, 2011, M.S. Foo leg., ZRC _ ENT00007794-7796 View Materials ; same locality as previous, 1.35386, 103.77988, 4 Jan 2017, W. Wang leg., WW-SG17-002, ZRC _ HYM_0000565; same locality as previous, 28 Mar, collection year unknown, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000740; Lower Peirce Reservoir , Aug 1990, collectors unknown, ZRC _ENT (multiple); same locality as previous, 7 May 2017, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ ENT00048417 View Materials ; Mandai Road, 1.41258, 103.79839, ZRC _HYM_0001538-1543; Mandai Lake Road , 5 Nov 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ ENT00048425 View Materials ; Upper Peirce Reservoir, 10 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., SG14- SKY-48, ZRC _HYM_0000367 GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Types – CASENT0901398, ANTC20921 ( OUMNH); CASENT0901505 , ANTC21025 ( BMNH) [as syntypes of Myrmica longipes ] .

Literature. Type – Smith (1857) [as Myrmica longipes ]. Eguchi (1999, 2001, 2003), Tan & Corlett (2012) [all as Pheidole longipes ].

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Lower and Upper Peirce Reservoir; Mandai Lake Road; Mandai Road.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with primary and old/mature secondary forests in Singapore, including native-dominat- ed secondary forests. Nests were frequently found under fallen logs, or in soil at bases of living trees or dead tree stumps. Individual workers were often found foraging in leaf litter. The ants are often found at high densities or abundances in and around nesting sites.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore. Previously known as ‘ Pheidole longipes ( Smith, 1857) ’, before being rendered the current replacement name by Özdikmen (2010) as the original name was a junior secondary homonym of ‘ Pheidole longipes ( Latreille, 1802) ’.