Hypoponera truncata (Smith, 1860)

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 : 123-124

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
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scientific name	Hypoponera truncata (Smith, 1860)
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Hypoponera truncata (Smith, 1860) View in CoL

Material examined. Nee Soon Swamp Forest , 17 Dec 2021, W.N. Lam et al. leg., ZRC _ ENT00057832 – 57833 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Nee Soon Swamp Forest

Habitat/Ecology. This species was found in freshwater swamp forest, collected from leaf litter and soil debris.

Remarks. Hypoponera truncata was first described based on a holotype queen (Smith 1860). At the time of writing, both reliablyidentified worker images and physical specimens of this species were unavailable for comparison. Thus, the identities of ZRC material examined (all workers) were deduced based on the original worker description by

Forel (1905), and the holotype queen image on AntWeb. These specimens should be considered Hypoponera truncata sensu lato.

This blackish species resembles Hypoponera elliptica (Forel, 1900) from Australia, but is generally smaller (worker TL 2.7-3.1 mm, see Forel 1905), has longer antennal scapes that visibly exceed the posterior margin of head, more strongly convex sides of head, and shorter propodeal dorsum.