Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893
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https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474532 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3121-FFD1-FD4B-79C3FB4CF8F7 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893 |
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Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893 View in CoL
Material examined. Mandai Lake Road, buffer area ( Northern Node ), 1°24’36.5”N, 103°47’04.0”, 53m, 18 Jul 2019, J.S. Tan & N.L. Chin leg., Winkler extraction, ZRC _ ENT00028296 View Materials .
Material not physically examined. Unknown.
Literature. None. New record.
Localities. Mandai Lake Road
Habitat/Ecology. Individuals of this species were found in leaf litter and upper soil substrate from mature secondary forest.
Remarks. At the time of writing, this species is only known from one locality in Singapore.
Cryptopone testacea was first described from Sri Lanka, and currently appears to have a broad geographic distribution from the Malagasy region to Micronesia. Multiple species endemic to different regions have been synonymized under C. testacea , albeit with subtle morphological differences observed between the congeners. It remains possible that ‘ C. testacea ’ could comprise a complex of morphologically-similar species, but this issue may only be resolved with DNA evidence.
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Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore |
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