Ochetellus glaber ( Mayr, 1862 )

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 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15473755
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-314D-FFBD-FF67-7E7CFB57FEB7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Ochetellus glaber ( Mayr, 1862 )
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Ochetellus glaber ( Mayr, 1862) View in CoL

Material examined. Chestnut Avenue wasteland, 11 Jul 2009, H.K. Lua leg., LHK 505, sweepnet, ZRC _ HYM_0000182; Tuas West Drive marshland, 31 Mar 2007, H.K. Lua leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000183; Upper Thomson Nature Park , 9 Dec 2017, Sk. Yamane leg. ( SKYC) .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Chestnut Avenue; Tuas; Upper Thomson Nature Park.

Habitat/Ecology. Associated mostly with young secondary habitat in Singapore, including wasteland forest fragments in semi-urban settings, and marshland. These ants were also commonly observed at forest margins. Nests were found in dead twigs, rotting wood or under stones.

Remarks. This species may have been introduced locally, though it can be considered native to the Indo-Australian region that includes Singapore. This conjecture cannot be verified at the time of writing because of deficient data.