Odontoponera denticulata ( Smith, 1858 )

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 : 130-131

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scientific name	Odontoponera denticulata ( Smith, 1858 )
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Odontoponera denticulata ( Smith, 1858) View in CoL

Material examined. Ang Mo Kio Garden West, Jul-Nov 2013, Klara M.C. Chua leg., NT1- 8B, ZRC _ ENT00027904 View Materials ; Bedok Town Park, same collection date and collector as previous, DT1-5A, ZRC _ ENT00027903 View Materials ; Bukit Batok East, 1.34304, 103.76235, 27-29 Sep 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001349; Bukit Timah, Hindhede Drive, Dec 1989, H.K. Lua leg., ZRC _ ENT00000250 View Materials ; Choa Chu Kang Avenue 2, 1 Mar 2017, D.J. Court leg., ZRC _HYM_0001724; Commonwealth Road, 1.31115, 103.78171, 22-24 Nov 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001350- 1356; Kent Ridge, 1 Jun 1985, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000817; Kranji Road, 1.42638, 103.75413, 8-10 Nov 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001362-1371; Linden Drive, 27 Oct 1974, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000818; MacRitchie Reservoir, 13 Apr 1993, collector unknown, NS37, ZRC _HYM_0000198; Mandai Road, 1.41119, 103.80513, 29 Nov-1 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001357; males, Prince George’s Park Residences ( NUS), Jun-Aug 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, ZRC _ BDP0045703 View Materials ,- 47328; Pulau Ubin, 1.41662, 103.99443, 4 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong & M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001095; Seletar Link, 1.40518, 103.88555, 18-25 Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001358-1361; Sunset Way, 1.32609, 103.77187, 29-31 Aug 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001345; male, Telok Blangah Street 31, 28 Apr 2019, N. Chin leg., ZRC _ ENT00013541 View Materials ; Upper Peirce Reservoir , 10 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., ZRC _HYM_0000410-411; queen and workers, Upper Thomson Nature Park , Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001372-1385 GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Holotype queen – CASENT0900664 ( BMNH). Non-types, J.K. Wetterer leg. ( JKWC) – City Hall, by church, 29 Jul 2014, vial #377; Outram Park, by MRT station, 29 Jul 2014, vial #379.

Literature. Type – Smith (1858) [as Ponera denticulata ; see Remarks on erroneous type locality indicated in the original description]. Yamane (2009); Tan & Corlett (2012); Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Ang Mo Kio Garden West; Bedok Town Park; Bukit Batok East; Bukit Timah; City Hall; Choa Chu Kang; Commonwealth Road; Kent Ridge; Kranji Road; Linden Drive; MacRitchie Reservoir; Mandai Road; Outram Park; Prince George’s Park Residences ( NUS); Pulau Ubin; Seletar Link; Sunset Way; Telok Blangah; Upper Peirce Reservoir; Upper Thomson Nature Park.

Habitat/Ecology. This species seemed common in cultivated vegetation patches and/or disturbed forest fragments and fringes in urban or semi-urban settings, including urban residential areas and parks. Individuals were also collected from both mature and young secondary forests, such as abandoned plantation and waste woodland forests, usually while foraging at ground level. The species has sometimes been collected from open grassland or scrub.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore – this species was first described based on the holotype queen from Singapore. The type locality for O. denticulata was indicated as ‘ South Africa: Cape of Good Hope’ in its original description (see Smith 1858). However, this was later clarified as an error due to mislabelling of the specimen ( Donisthorpe 1943).