Technomyrmex albipes ( Smith, 1861 )

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 : 28

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15473777
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scientific name	Technomyrmex albipes ( Smith, 1861 )
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Technomyrmex albipes ( Smith, 1861) View in CoL

Material examined. Pulau Ubin village , 7 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., SG14-SKY-17, ZRC _ HYM_0000437; Sungei Buloh , 8 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000438. Male , Prince George’s Park Residences ( NUS), 1.292389N, 103.778694E GoogleMaps , 19-26 Aug 2015, M.S. Foo and W. Wang leg., malaise trap, ZRC _ BDP0047424 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924); Bolton (2007).

Localities. Bukit Timah Hill; Bukit Timah Road; Nee Soon; Prince George’s Park Residences ( NUS); Pulau Ubin; Sungei Buloh.

Habitat/Ecology. Colonies were found in a garden — in rotten wood, hollow branches and withered bamboo. The ants were also found in disturbed secondary, swamp forests, and mangroves, where a colony was found in a dead twig on a tree.

Remarks. Known to be a highly successful tramp species able to nest and forage in both groundlevel and arboreal environments ( Bolton 2007), also commonly found in parks and other urban settings elsewhere.