Protanilla rafflesi Taylor (1990)

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 : 67-68

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474210
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3117-FFE6-FD4B-7F1CFD06FC17
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Protanilla rafflesi Taylor (1990)
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Protanilla rafflesi Taylor (1990) View in CoL

Material examined. Queen and workers, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, D 10-4, 28 Jan 1969, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000023; same locality and collector as previous, 7 Dec 1968, ZRC _ HYM_0000028; same locality as previous, 1.34796, 103.77914, 29 Oct 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _ ENT00000674 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Bukit Timah Hill, slope, D11-7, collection date unknown, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000027; Lower Peirce Reservoir , Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ HYM_0000244; same collection data as previous ( SKYC); Nee Soon forest , 1.38279, 103.80650, 25 Sep 2017, W. Wang leg., NSW1, Winkler extraction, ZRC _ ENT00000910 View Materials GoogleMaps ; same locality and collector as previous, 1.38245, 103.80206, 46m, 26 Apr 2018, Winkler extraction, ZRC _ ENT00000953 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Holotype – CASENT0102375, ANTC4604 ( BMNH) . Paratype – ANIC32-017901 About ANIC , Shattuck1345248029 ( ANIC).

Literature. Type – Taylor in Bolton (1990). Xu (2012).

Localities. Bukit Timah; Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (a.k.a. Bukit Timah Hill); Lower Peirce Reservoir Road; MacRitchie; Nee Soon forest.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with primary or mature secondary habitat in Singapore, including swamp forest and old secondary forest. Specimens have also been collected from young secondary Adinandra belukar -dominated forest. Usually found in leaf litter and woody ground debris, often collected via Winkler extraction.

Remarks. Type localities (i.e., MacRitchie and Bukit Timah Nature Reserve) in Singapore.