Carebara castanea Smith, 1858

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 : 71

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474228
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3113-FFE3-FD4B-79FCFC5DF9B8
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Carebara castanea Smith, 1858
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Carebara castanea Smith, 1858 View in CoL

Material examined. Alate queen, Pulau Ubin , 1.41149, 103.97475, 22 Oct 2015, S.X. Chui et al. leg., ZRC _ ENT00047836 View Materials GoogleMaps ; alate queen, Kent Ridge Road , 1.29518, 103.77615, 2 Nov 2015, Y.G. Tan leg., ZRC _ ENT00047837 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Kent Ridge Road; Pulau Ubin.

Habitat/Ecology. Alate queens were found, sometimes en masse, in secondary forest patches or fragments in semi-urban settings.

Remarks. At the time of writing, the only records of this species in Singapore are of alate queens. The alate queen of C. castanea closely resembles that of Carebara lignata Westwood, 1840 , however, its post-petiole appears broadest (in dorsal view) anteriorly, unlike in C. lignata .