Stictoponera binghamii (Forel, 1900)

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 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
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scientific name	Stictoponera binghamii (Forel, 1900)
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Stictoponera binghamii (Forel, 1900) View in CoL

Material examined. Mandai, Bird Park Buffer, 17 Jul 2019, J. Tan & N. Chin leg., JTNC- MIS-002, Mandai Insect Survey , ZRC _ ENT00013543 View Materials ; Bukit Timah forest , Apr 1968, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000611-612; same locality as previous, 17 Mar 1967, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000615-616 .

Material not physically examined. Type male – FOCOL0867 ( ZMHB) .

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as Stictoponera binghami (sic)].

Localities. Bukit Timah; Mandai.

Habitat/Ecology. Found mostly in primary or mature secondary forests, as well as young secondary habitat in Singapore. Individuals have been collected from forest litter and soil samples; nests can be found in cavities of fallen rotting/decaying wood or branches. In one instance, a nest was found in a large fallen rotting branch alongside a Leptogenys colony.

Remarks. The first local record of this species was a male type specimen identified and described by Viehmeyer (1916), based on material collected by Hans Overbeck. Genus initially determined as Gnamptogenys , but present species combination revived in Camacho et al. (2022) based on phylogenetic evidence.