Anochetus graeffei Mayr, 1870

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 : 115

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15475223
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3127-FFD7-FF67-793CFB59FD37
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Anochetus graeffei Mayr, 1870
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Anochetus graeffei Mayr, 1870 View in CoL

Material examined. Kent Ridge Park , 7 Dec 2017, W. Wang leg.,WW-SG17-027, ZRC _ ENT00000979 View Materials ; workers and dealate queen, same locality as previous, 7 Dec 2017, Sk. Yamane leg., SG17-SKY-21 ( SKYC) ; Nee Soon forest , 27 Jan 2015, W. Wang leg., WW-SG15- Anoc 1, ZRC _ ENT00000978 View Materials ; male, Pulau Semakau Old Fragment , SMO3, 1°12’23.9”N, 103°45’37.6”E, 5-12 Jul 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., mangroves, malaise trap, Reg. 29342, ZRC _ BDP0014528 View Materials GoogleMaps ; queens and males, Pulau Ubin, PU 1, 1°24’36.3”N, 103°59’25.5”E, Jul-Nov 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., mangroves, malaise trap, ZRC GoogleMaps _ BDP (multiple); male, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , SB1, 1°26›46.3»N, 103°43›49.9»E, 21-28 Nov 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., mangroves, malaise trap, Reg. 29595, ZRC _ BDP0017502 View Materials ; Upper Thomson Road , 24 Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ ENT00048414 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. ANIC 32- 015989, Shattuck1345236804 ( ANIC).

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as Anochetus punctiventris ]. Shattuck & Slipinska (2012).

Localities. Kent Ridge Park; Labrador Nature Reserve; Nee Soon forest; Pulau Semakau; Pulau Ubin; Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve ; Upper Thomson Road .

Habitat/Ecology. Workers of this species were found in a garden, semi-urban parklands, young secondary forest and also Imperata cylindrica- dominated grassy scrub. Nests have been collected from dead twigs in leaf litter. Alates were collected from mangroves using malaise traps.

Remarks. This species is known to exhibit broad morphological variation between different populations, and may actually comprise a complex of multiple sibling species. In this checklist, we tentatively treat all morphological variants of this potential species complex in the ZRC as conspecific, bearing in mind the possibility that these might be separated into different species should more convincing empirical evidence be made available in future.