Philidris laevigata ( Emery, 1895 )

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 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15473757
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scientific name	Philidris laevigata ( Emery, 1895 )
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Philidris laevigata ( Emery, 1895) View in CoL

Material examined. Rifle Range Road, 6 Dec 2017, W. Wang leg., hand collection (day), WW-SG17-045, ZRC _ ENT00014140 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [as ‘ Iridomyrmex levigatus ’]; Baroni Urbani (1977) [as ‘ Iridomyrmex laevigatus jactans’].

Localities. Ayer Terjun (archaic place name); Botanic Gardens; Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Chua Chu Kang; Pulau Bulang; Rifle Range Road; Ulu Beri

Habitat/Ecology. Found mostly in primary or mature secondary habitat in Singapore, including native-dominated secondary forest. Colonies have been observed in (hollows of) bamboo and hollow branches, in bark fissures or under loose bark of trees, covered up with earth. The ants typically form carton trunk trails near and around bases of trees.