Ponera menglana Xu, 2001

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 : 133

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474614
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-31D1-FF21-FD4B-7AE3FC5CFC57
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Ponera menglana Xu, 2001
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Ponera menglana Xu, 2001 View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah forest , 6 Jun 1968, D.H. Murphy leg., D7-4, ZRC _ HYM_0000644; same locality and collection data as previous, D7-4, ZRC _ HYM_0000649; Bukit Batok abandoned park, 28 Jan 2015, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00027964 View Materials ; queen and workers, Mandai Lake Road, Northern Node , 1°24’36.5”N, 103°47’04.0”, 53 m, 18 Jul 2019, J.S. Tan & N.L. Chin leg., Winkler extraction, JTNC_MIS_013, ZRC _ ENT00028291 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Bukit Batok; Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Mandai Lake Road.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with different grades of secondary forest (i.e., young, mature, old) at varying levels of disturbance, including waste woodland forest of an abandoned park. The ants were typically collected from rotten wood, leaf litter, and upper soil substrate.