Nylanderia birmana (Forel, 1902)

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 : 49

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474048
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3165-FF95-FF67-7E7CFB60FD97
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Nylanderia birmana (Forel, 1902)
status

Treatment

Nylanderia birmana (Forel, 1902) View in CoL

Material examined. Lower Peirce Reservoir Park , 1.39095, 103.81041, 17 Dec 2021, W.N. Lam leg., ZRC _ ENT00057789-57790 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Upper Peirce Reservoir Park , 1.38726, 103.81030, same collector and date as previous, ZRC _ ENT00057788 View Materials GoogleMaps ; workers and alate queen, same locality and collector as previous, 27 Dec 2021, ZRC _ ENT00057791 View Materials GoogleMaps ; MacRitchie Reservoir Park , 1.35229, 103.82450, 21 Oct 2021, same collector as previous, ZRC _ ENT00057792 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Lower Peirce Reservoir; MacRitchie Reservoir; Upper Peirce Reservoir.

Habitat/Ecology. This species was collected from leaf litter in freshwater swamp forest, also native-dominated primary and/or secondary dryland forests.

Remarks. Nylanderia birmana resembles Paratrechina longicornis in body colour and general habitus, but can be distinguished from the latter by the following ( P. longicornis traits in parentheses): 1) head and mesosoma finely and irregularly reticulate, weakly shining or almost matte (smooth and moderately shining, weakly shagreened), 2) antennal scapes with erect macrosetae (scapes lacking erect macrosetae), 3) mesosoma and legs relatively more robust and larger, dorsal outline of promesonotum more strongly convex in lateral view (body more slender, dorsal outline of promesonotum weakly convex in lateral view).