Vollenhovia rufiventris Forel, 1901

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 : 114

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scientific name	Vollenhovia rufiventris Forel, 1901
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Vollenhovia rufiventris Forel, 1901 View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah forest , 16 Feb 1975, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000901 .

Material not physically examined. Types – male and dealate queen, FOCOL2920-FOCOL2921 ( ZMHB) .

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924).

Localities. Bukit Timah forest; Bukit Timah Road.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated with primary and mature secondary habitats in Singapore. Individuals can sometimes be seen on fallen wood or logs. Colonies can be found in the soft wood of rotting fallen trees.

Remarks. The male and queen of this species were first described from Singapore (see Viehmeyer 1916), based on a colony series collected from a garden, many years after the species itself was established in 1901 based on the worker.