Pseudoneoponera rufipes ( Jerdon, 1851 )

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 : 134

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474627
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-31D0-FF20-FD73-7B7CFB69FB58
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pseudoneoponera rufipes ( Jerdon, 1851 )
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Pseudoneoponera rufipes ( Jerdon, 1851) View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Jun-Aug 1967, D.H. Murphy leg., pitfall trap, ZRC _ENT00027992; same locality as previous, plot III-2, 28 Apr 2016, D.J. Court leg., pitfall trap, ZRC _ ENT00048451 View Materials ; same locality as previous, collection date unknown, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000873; same locality as previous, Aug 1967, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000869; Lower Peirce Reservoir , 7 Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ HYM_0000242; Sunset Way , 1.32609, 103.77187, 21-23 Sep 2016, G.W. Yong leg., pitfall trap, ZRC GoogleMaps _HYM_0001184; same locality, collection date and collector as previous, ZRC GoogleMaps _HYM_0001633.

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Lower Peirce Reservoir; Sunset Way.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with primary or old/mature secondary forests, sometimes also in young secondary forests such as abandoned plantation forests, in Singapore. These ants are usually ground-foraging and were often collected using pitfall traps.