Ooceraea biroi (Forel, 1907)

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.15473849

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-314A-FFBA-FF0F-7F03FBC5FDD7

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scientific name

Ooceraea biroi (Forel, 1907)
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Ooceraea biroi (Forel, 1907) View in CoL

Material examined. Mandai , 1.40699, 103.77853, 19 Sep 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., leaf litter, Berlese extraction, ZRC _ ENT00000670 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Pearl’s Hill City Park , 21 Aug 2017, J. Choi leg., Jchoi-SG17-01, ZRC _ HYM_0001748; MacRitchie forest , 30 Aug 1982, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ ENT00027945 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Paralectotype of Cerapachys (Syscia) biroi, CASENT 0907059, ANTC27237 ( MHNG) . Syntype of C. biroi, CASENT 0916710, ANTC44062 ( HNHM Budapest) .

Literature. Type – Forel (1907) [ Cerapachys (Syscia) biroi ].

Localities. MacRitchie; Mandai; Pearl’s Hill City Park.

Habitat/Ecology. Both mature and young secondary forests, also cultivated land in urban or semi-urban settings such as parks. Nests were often found in soil under rocks, or in old rotten logs typically filled with soil or abandoned termite nest residue. Individuals were sometimes collected from leaf litter.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore.

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

HNHM

Hungarian Natural History Museum (Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Ooceraea

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