Pheidole sexspinosa Mayr, 1870

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474381
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3108-FFF8-FF0F-787CFEC8F8D7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pheidole sexspinosa Mayr, 1870
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Pheidole sexspinosa Mayr, 1870 View in CoL

Material examined. Kranji mangroves, 9 May 1985, D.H. Murphy leg., DHM-SG85- Phei-ss 1, ZRC _ ENT00000768 View Materials ; Lim Chu Kang mangrove, 10 Mar 1987, D.H. Murphy leg., DHM-SG87- Phei-ss 1, ZRC _ ENT00000769 View Materials ; same locality as previous, 27 Feb 2002, BL1101 Helpers leg., ZRC _ ENT00007572 View Materials ; queen and workers, Mandai mangroves, 27 Oct 1977, D.H. Murphy leg., DHM-SG77- Phei-ss 2, ZRC _ ENT00000770 View Materials ; same locality and collector as previous, 18 Oct 1977, DHM-SG77- Phei-ss 3, ZRC _ ENT00000772 View Materials ; same locality and collector as previous, 2 Oct 1978, ZRC _ ENT00027931 View Materials ; queen and workers, same locality as previous, 8 May 2018, W. Wang leg., WW-SG18- Phei 4, ZRC _ ENT00007290 View Materials ; Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , 1.4462, 103.73058, 14 Mar 2018, W. Wang leg., WW-SG18- Phei 3, ZRC _ ENT00000908-909 View Materials GoogleMaps ; same locality as previous, 1.4472, 103.72537, 20 Dec 2018, W. Wang & M.S. Foo leg., WW-SG18- Phei 5, ZRC _ ENT00007644 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Wang et al. (2018b).

Localities. Kranji mangroves; Lim Chu Kang mangrove; Mandai mangroves; Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated exclusively with mangrove habitats in Singapore. Nests can be found in abandoned Thalassina (a.k.a mud lobsters) mounds — sometimes shared with other invertebrates including the mangrove trap-jaw ant Odontomachus litoralis , cable roots of mangrove trees such as Excoecaria agallocha L., or in decayed or living stems of Rhizophora above tide inundation levels.