Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) saevissima Smith, 1860

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 : 63

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474163
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-316B-FF9B-FD4B-7A9CFB58FB77
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) saevissima Smith, 1860
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Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) saevissima Smith, 1860 View in CoL

Material examined. Upper Peirce Reservoir , 10 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., SG14-SKY-46, ZRC _ HYM_0000423; Pulau Ubin, PU 3, 15-22 Dec 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., mangroves, malaise trap, Reg. 29646, ZRC _ BDP0016507 View Materials ; alate queen, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , SB 1, 1°26’46.3”N, 103°43’49.9”E, 12-19 Dec 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., mangroves, malaise trap, Reg. 29634, ZRC _ BDP0017223 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Pulau Ubin; Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve; Upper Peirce Reservoir.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is found in primary or mature secondary habitats in Singapore, including mangroves where most occurrences have been reported. In primary or mature secondary forests, nests were found between leaves.

Remarks. At the time of writing, taxonomic validity of P. saevissima is uncertain with broad morphological variation observed between populations. While for the purposes of this checklist we tentatively treat these variants as conspecific, it is possible that these might be proven to be different species with more empirical evidence made available in future.