Technomyrmex kraepelini Forel, 1905

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15473783
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3149-FFB9-FF67-79BCFCC5FE56
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Technomyrmex kraepelini Forel, 1905
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Technomyrmex kraepelini Forel, 1905 View in CoL

Material examined. Upper Peirce Reservoir , 10 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., SG14- SKY-53, ZRC _ HYM_0000464; same locality and collection data, SG14-SKY-51, ZRC _ HYM_0000465; Lower Peirce Reservoir , 28 Jul 1990, H.K. Lua leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000229. ZRC _ BDP0016044 View Materials ; University Town ( NUS), 1.306222°N, 103.774583°E, 8-15 Jul 2015, M.S. Foo and W. Wang leg., malaise trap, ZRC _ BDP0046474 View Materials GoogleMaps . Alate, Pulau Ubin, Sg. Assam, 1.42126°N, 103.94836°E, PU3, 27 Oct – 3 Nov 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., malaise trap, ZRC _ BDP0016044 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. ANIC 32- 044947, D3-9 ( ANIC).

Literature. Bolton (2007); Tan & Corlett (2012); Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Bukit Batok; Bukit Timah; Lower Peirce Reservoir; Mandai Road; Seletar; Tuas West Drive; University Town ( NUS); Upper Peirce Reservoir.

Habitat/Ecology. Typically found foraging at ground level, often on/in leaf litter. Can be found in different types of secondary forest: abandoned plantation, native-dominated and waste woodland. Sometimes also found in marshland.

Remarks. Winged alates of this species have been identified from samples of malaise traps set up in disturbed spontaneous vegetation patches in urban or semi-urban settings, and in mangroves.