Technomyrmex schimmeri Viehmeyer, 1916

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 : 29-30

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15473797
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3149-FFB8-FD4B-7E83FD91FE57
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Technomyrmex schimmeri Viehmeyer, 1916
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Technomyrmex schimmeri Viehmeyer, 1916 View in CoL

Material examined. Upper Thomson Nature Park , 9 Dec 2017, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00000776 View Materials ; Kent Ridge, KR 02_05, 2017, W.N. Lam leg., ZRC ; Nee Soon , 17 Aug 2017, W.N. Lam leg., ZRC ; MacRitchie Reservoir , 9 Jan 2014, ex. leaf litter, Sk. Yamane leg., SG14-SKY-36 ( SKYC) .

Material not physically examined. Types, including 1 queen, FOCOL2877 – 2879 ( ZMHB) .

Literature. Type – Viehmeyer (1916). Overbeck (1924); Bolton (2007).

Localities. Type locality – Bukit Timah Road. Bukit Batok; Kent Ridge; near I-cube building; MacRitchie Reservoir; Nee Soon ; Upper Thomson Nature Park .

Habitat/Ecology. The type series was found in withered bamboo in a garden. This species was also collected from scrubland, and abandoned plantation secondary forest, usually in leaf litter sometimes at bases of trees. Specimens have also been collected from liquid contents of Nepenthes pitchers.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore.