Pristomyrmex punctatus (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 : 97

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474402
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3135-FFC5-FF67-7983FE9CF937
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pristomyrmex punctatus (Smith, 1860)
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Pristomyrmex punctatus (Smith, 1860) View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Batok East Avenue 6, 1.34304, 103.76235, 1 Sep 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC GoogleMaps _ HM_0001704; Bukit Batok East , 1.34218, 103.76316, Aug-Sep 2016, G.W. Yong et al. leg., ZRC _ ENT00047915-47916 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Upper Thomson Road , 2 Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ ENT00000981 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. In Wang (2003) but specimen repositories not specified – locality and collection date unavailable, H. Overbeck coll.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as ‘ Prystomyrmex (sic) pungens ]. Wang (2003).

Localities. Bukit Batok East; Bukit Timah Road; Upper Thomson Road.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with young secondary forests in Singapore, including abandoned plantation secondary forest, and has also been found in gardens. These ants are known to frequently occur in open and disturbed habitats, and were usually found nesting in soil, leaf litter, or rotting wood.