Parvaponera darwinii ( Forel, 1893 )

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 : 132

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474608
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-31D6-FF26-FF0F-7E02FE08F977
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Parvaponera darwinii ( Forel, 1893 )
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Parvaponera darwinii ( Forel, 1893) View in CoL

Material examined. Alate queens and males, Raffles Lighthouse, 10 Aug 2019, J. Tan leg., ZRC _ ENT00027936 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Alate queen, CASENT0249179, PSW09596-2 ( PSWC).

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as Euponera (Trachymesopus) darwini var. indica ].

Localities. Bukit Timah Road; Kent Ridge.

Habitat/Ecology. Alate queens and males of this species were collected from around lamps in urban parklands and a garden. Alates were also collected on an offshore dive boat in surrounding waters of a lighthouse islet, where they swarmed around lights on the vessel at night. Actual habitat preferences of this species are unknown in the Singapore context at the time of writing.