Pheidole hortensis Forel, 1913

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 : 91

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474363
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scientific name	Pheidole hortensis Forel, 1913
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Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , BT 08, 1.35435, 103.78225, 14 Dec 2016, W. Wang leg., WW-SG16-004, ZRC _ HYM_0000294 GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

Habitat/Ecology. A colony was found in soil near tree roots in mature secondary forest.

Remarks. The minor workers of P. hortensis are almost indistinguishable from those of P. clypeocornis . Species identity was therefore only confirmed for material where major workers were available.