Strumigenys mitis ( Brown, 2000 )

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 : 104

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474441
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3132-FFC2-FD73-7943FC2BF937
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Strumigenys mitis ( Brown, 2000 )
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Strumigenys mitis ( Brown, 2000) View in CoL

Material examined. Queen and workers, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, near BT07, 28 Sep 2016, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00007242 View Materials ; same locality and collector as previous, near BT01, 8 Dec 2016, ZRC _ ENT00007243 View Materials ; same locality and collector as previous, near BT09, 5 Oct 2016, ZRC _ ENT00007244 View Materials ; queen and workers, Nee Soon forest , 1.38245, 103.80206, 46 m, NS_W2, 26 Apr 2018, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00047851 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. In Bolton (2000) – 1 non-type queen, locality unspecified ( MCZ).

Literature. Bolton (2000) [as Pyramica mitis ].

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Nee Soon forest.

Habitat/Ecology. This species was found mainly in old or mature secondary forest in Singapore, including Adinandra belukar -dominant forest, where individuals were usually collected from leaf litter.

Remarks. Elsewhere in the world, this species is known to be able to thrive in a wide range of habitats including heavily disturbed and degraded grasslands and plantations (see Tang et al. 2019).