Leptogenys iridescens ( Smith, 1857 )

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 : 125

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474580
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3129-FFD9-FF67-78C3FC1FFDD7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Leptogenys iridescens ( Smith, 1857 )
status

Treatment

Leptogenys iridescens ( Smith, 1857) View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , 1.34772, 103.77766, collector unknown, 30 Nov 2015, ZRC _ ENT00000714 View Materials GoogleMaps ; same locality as previous, 18 May 1969, D.H. Murphy leg., A24-10, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0000672; same locality and collector as previous, 4 October 1973, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0000676; same locality and collector as previous, 8 Jun 1967, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0000874; Central Catchment Nature Reserve , MacRitchie, 10 Sep 2011, E.J.Y. Soh leg., ZRC _ ENT00000858 View Materials ; Nee Soon forest , 1.37770, 103.80645, 3 Aug 2017, W.N. Lam leg., NS02_04, ZRC _ ENT00000859 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Seletar Trail , 1.3946, 103.80113, 28 Aug 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., Berlese extraction, ZRC _ ENT00000715 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Central Catchment Nature Reserve (MacRitchie); Nee Soon forest; Seletar Trail.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated with primary or old/mature secondary forests in Singapore, including swamp forest where individuals were found in the lower pitcher contents of Nepenthes ampullaria . The ants were also collected from leaf litter, and on forest paths or trails.

Remarks. At the time of writing, most examined material in the ZRC were expert-identified to the ‘ L. iridescens complex’ – broad morphological variation was observed between different samples. Some specimens had characters that would more closely confer with L. mutabilis sensu lato (W. Wang 2021, pers. obs.). In the absence of more compelling empirical evidence supporting different species hypotheses, we tentatively treat these variable specimens as conspecific for the purposes of this checklist.