Carebara silenus ( 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 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474234
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-311D-FFED-FF67-7A9CFDF9FC57
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Carebara silenus ( Smith, 1858 )
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Carebara silenus ( Smith, 1858) View in CoL

Material examined. Male, University Hall ( NUS), 1.29711, 103.77658, 6-13 May 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg. GoogleMaps , malaise trap, NUS0028, ZRC _ BDP0041385 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Syntypes – CASENT0900737-900738, ANTC19789 ( BMNH)[types of Pheidologeton silenus ] .

Literature. Type – Smith (1858) [as Pheidole silenus ]. Moffett (1988a), Yamane (2003) [both as Pheidologeton silenus ].

Localities. University Hall ( NUS)

Habitat/Ecology. Similar foraging and/or hunting tactics as with Carebara diversa , but lacking the stable trunk trails unique to the latter ( Moffett 1988a). There is no available information on the habitat in which the type series was obtained. This species may likely be found in mature or old secondary forest fragments, in urban or semi-urban settings, where it sometimes appears to thrive in sympatry with C. diversa .

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore.