Dorylus laevigatus ( Smith, 1857 )

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 : 31

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
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scientific name	Dorylus laevigatus ( Smith, 1857 )
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Dorylus laevigatus ( Smith, 1857) View in CoL

Material examined. Lower Peirce Reservoir , Forest A, 7 Aug 1990, Zoology Dept. 3 rd year project, ZRC _ ENT00000191 View Materials ; Central Catchment Nature Reserve , Venus Loop, SPT15, 1.355491, 103.815777, 15 Jun 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., subterranean pitfall trap, ZRC _ ENT00000671 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Rifle Range Road , 6 Dec 2017, Sk. Yamane leg., SG17-SKY-02, ZRC _ ENT00000879 View Materials . Male alates; 3 Pandan Valley, 16 Sep 2016, Y.C. Tay leg., ZRC _ HYM_0001734; Chun Tin Road , 24 Dec 2009, C.M. Yang leg., ZRC _ ENT00014107-14108 View Materials ; Ang Mo Kio Drive , ITE Headquarters, 29 Sep 2020, H.F. Loo & S.K. Koh leg., on carpet in pantry, ZRC _ ENT00028565 View Materials ; Pasir Panjang Road , 20 Jan 2021, J. Ho leg., ZRC _ ENT00047779 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [as Dorylus (Dichthadia) levigatus var. breviceps ].

Localities. (Only localities where workers were found are given here, as male occurrences are not accurate inferences of nest locations) Central Catchment Nature Reserve; Lower Peirce Reservoir; Rifle Range Road.

Habitat/Ecology. Primary and/or mature secondary forest — colonies were found in soil.

Remarks. Considered a kind of Old World ‘army ant’ — a general term for ants characterized by cooperative group foraging/predatory tactics and nomadic behaviour. Solitary male alates have been reported from urban residential or commercial areas away from forested areas — these are isolated incidences of males dispersed far from their original nest sources.