Leptogenys diminuta ( 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 : 124

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474575
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scientific name	Leptogenys diminuta ( Smith, 1857 )
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Leptogenys diminuta ( Smith, 1857) View in CoL

Material examined. Males and workers, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, 30 Sep 1964, D.H. Murphy, A-292-11, DHM-SG64- Lep 1, ZRC _ ENT00027949 View Materials ; same locality and collector as previous, Fern Valley contour, 14 May 1967, DHM-SG67- Lep 1, ZRC _ ENT00027950 View Materials ; same locality as previous, 1965, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00048393 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record (see Remarks).

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated with primary or mature secondary forests in Singapore. Individuals were found in rotting wood, under bark of fallen dead trees, or in leaf litter and soil debris.

Remarks. Supposed historical literature records of this species in Singapore (i.e., Viehmeyer 1916, Overbeck 1924) actually reported specimens from Gunong Angsi in Malaysia, not Singapore. This error has unfortunately been perpetuated in contemporary online databases and some secondary literature sources, e.g. Xu & He (2015).