Calyptomyrmex beccarii Emery, 1893

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 : 69

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474218
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3111-FFE1-FF67-7A9CFDC8FB78
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Calyptomyrmex beccarii Emery, 1893
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Calyptomyrmex beccarii Emery, 1893 View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Jungle Fall Valley, 10 Apr 1976, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000623-624; Kent Ridge Park, YM site 2, 7 Dec 2017, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00027983 View Materials ; Mandai , 1.40699, 103.77853, 19 Sep 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., Berlese extraction, ZRC _ ENT00000684 View Materials ; Mandai Lake Road, 3 Nov 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0000990; same locality, collection date and collector as previous, ZRC _HYM_0001737 GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. FOCOL2181-2182 ( ZMHB) [types of Calyptomyrmex beccarii var. glabratus ] .

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as C. beccarii var. glabratus ]; Shattuck (2011).

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Bukit Timah Road; Kent Ridge Park; Mandai; Mandai Lake Road .

Habitat/Ecology. This species can be found mostly in young or old/mature secondary habitats in Singapore, including waste woodlands and disturbed secondary forest fragments in urban or semi-urban settings.A few occurrences were also recorded from cultivated vegetation such as gardens. Individuals have been collected from leaf litter, sometimes soil and root substrate matrices at bases of trees.