Parasyscia dohertyi ( Emery, 1902 )

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 : 32

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15473853
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scientific name	Parasyscia dohertyi ( Emery, 1902 )
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Parasyscia dohertyi ( Emery, 1902) View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Feb-Mar 1968, D.H. Murphy leg., A122-8, ZRC _HYM_0000724

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

Habitat/Ecology. A single worker was found in either primary or old/mature secondary forest.

Remarks. This is the first local record of Parasyscia . The specimen mostly confers with the holotype of P. dohertyi , based on online type images and descriptions in Wilson (1959). However, we observed a few differences between the Singapore specimen and the holotype that may warrant a reassessment of species in future, should more local material be available: 1) head slightly wider, CI 91 compared to CI 88 in the holotype; 2) posteroventral corner of head projected distinctly as rounded lobe (projection more shallow in the holotype); 3) generally smaller in size, petiole and postpetiole widths 0.58 and 0.68 mm respectively (0.66 and 0.80 mm in the holotype).