Buniapone amblyops (Emery, 1887)

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 : 116-117

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474522
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3126-FFD1-FD73-7EC3FE4DFDB7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Buniapone amblyops (Emery, 1887)
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Buniapone amblyops (Emery, 1887) View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , plot III-2, 19 Apr 2016, D.J. Court leg., pitfall trap, ZRC _ ENT00048455 View Materials ; same locality as previous, below Kruing (sic) Hut , 4 Oct 1973, D.H. Murphy leg., A340-1, ZRC _ ENT00047941 View Materials ; Kent Ridge scrub, 15 Jan 1981, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ ENT00047942 View Materials ; Pulau Ubin , 1.41662, 103.99443, 4 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong & M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0001090; Seletar Trail , 1.3946, 103.80113, 28 Aug 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _ ENT00000708 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. CASENT0172431, A64-9 ( ANIC).

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as Pseudoponera amblyops ]; Yong et al. (2017).

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve ; Kent Ridge; Pulau Ubin; Seletar Trail .

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with primary or old/mature secondary forests in Singapore, including disturbed secondary forest fragments or scrubland in semi-urban settings. Individuals were sometimes found under stones, planked steps, and imbedded bricks on a rock or sandy paths in mature secondary forest or scrub.