Gesomyrmex spatulatus Cole, 1949

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 : 48

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474032
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scientific name	Gesomyrmex spatulatus Cole, 1949
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Gesomyrmex spatulatus Cole, 1949 View in CoL

Material examined. Nassim Road, 25 Sep 1969, D.H. Murphy leg., DHM-SG69- Geso 1/2, ZRC _HYM_0000001-3 .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Nassim Road

Habitat/Ecology. This species was found nesting in old cerambycid mines or borings in live terminal twigs of a parasitic fig ( Ficus sp. ) on a large fallen tree. Some individuals were also observed to be swiftly running under sunlight on the same fallen tree.

Remarks. Specimens examined confer more with G. spatulatus sensu lato in terms of petiolar and clypeal shapes, though the species G. kalshoveni Wheeler, 1929 appears more likely in terms of known geographic distribution ( Indonesia (Java), as opposed to India (Assam )). The Singapore specimens may in fact be an entirely new species with characters intermediate between G. kalshoveni and G. spatulatus . Given the lack of more compelling empirical evidence at the time of writing, we tentatively treat these specimens as conspecific to G. spatulatus .