Tapinoma glaucum ( Viehmeyer, 1916 )

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 : 27

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15473765
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-314F-FFBF-FF67-7AE3FEF4FBF7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tapinoma glaucum ( Viehmeyer, 1916 )
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Tapinoma glaucum ( Viehmeyer, 1916) View in CoL

Material examined. Singapore, locality and collection date not specified, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000617.

Material not physically examined. Type, FOCOL2860 ( ZMHB) .

Literature. Type - Viehmeyer (1916) [as type of Semonius glaucus ]; Overbeck (1924) [as Semonius glaucus ].

Localities. Bukit Timah Road [type]

Habitat/Ecology. The type series was collected from a garden.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore. While exact collection date is unknown, we estimate the ZRC specimen to have been collected between 1965 to 1990, when collector D.H. Murphy was active. This minute species may arguably be distinguished from other similar congeners by the following combination:1) its overall dark bluish-greenish shimmer, 2) very finely, densely reticulate head and body surfaces, 3) mesosoma slightly shorter than head, 4) pronotum in dorsal view nearly twice as wide as long, 5) funicular segments 2-4 (segment 1 being basal-most) distinctly wider than long.