Carebara affinis ( Jerdon, 1851 )

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
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3113-FFE3-FF67-799CFB56FC57
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scientific name	Carebara affinis ( Jerdon, 1851 )
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Carebara affinis ( Jerdon, 1851) View in CoL

Material examined. Lower Peirce Reservoir , Forest A, 7 Aug 1990, Zoology Dept 3 rd Year project students, ZRC _ ENT00000192 View Materials ; same locality as previous, Forest B, 25 Aug 1990, Zoology Dept 3 rd Year project students, ZRC _ ENT00000113 View Materials ; Lorong Banir , NS 192, 16 Jun 1995, Yang & Lua leg., ZRC _ ENT00000376 View Materials ; Bukit Timah , Hindhede Drive, 25 Dec 1989, H.K. Lua leg., ZRC _ HYM_00000130; Pulau Ubin , 7 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., ZRC _ HYM_00000434-435, 482-483; University Campus Botany Garden , 11 Feb 1977, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000913; Mandai Road , 1.41119, 103.80513, 29 Nov- 1 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong leg., pitfall trap, M3D3GPc806, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0001770; Bukit Batok East Avenue 6, 1.34304, 103.76235, 3-5 Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., pitfall trap, BB1GPd382, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0001771; Mandai forest , 7 Jun 2018, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00047996 View Materials ; male, University Town ( NUS), 1.30622, 103.77458, 29 Apr-6 May 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., NUS0023, malaise trap, ZRC _ BDP0044771 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916). Overbeck (1924), Yamane (2003) [all as Pheidologeton affinis ]. Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Bukit Batok East; Bukit Timah Hindhede Drive; Bukit Timah Road; Lorong Banir; Lower Peirce Reservoir; Mandai; University Town ( NUS).

Habitat/Ecology. This species was found in both mature and young secondary forests at varying levels of disturbances, including native-dominated and abandoned plantation secondary forests. Individuals have been collected occasionally in disturbed forest fragments in semi-urban settings, or in cultivated gardens. The species has sometimes been collected from leaf litter or decayed wood.

Remarks. Considerable morphological variation was observed among different colonies of C. affinis , but we lack convincing empirical evidence supporting further species delimitation for this possible species complex at the time of writing. Thus, in this checklist, we tentatively treat all morphological variants as conspecific.