Odontoponera transversa ( Smith, 1857 )

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 : 131-132

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
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scientific name	Odontoponera transversa ( Smith, 1857 )
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Odontoponera transversa ( Smith, 1857) View in CoL

Material examined. Queen and workers, Bukit Batok East , 1.34304, 103.76235, Aug-Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., pitfall trap, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0001390-1395; Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , 8 Sep 2005, collector unknown, ZRC _ HYM_0000047-50; same locality as previous, near BT07, 1.35499, 103.78167, 19 Jul 2017, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00047930 View Materials GoogleMaps ; same locality as previous, plot III-2, 12 Oct 2015, D.J. Court leg., pitfall trap, ZRC _ ENT00048441 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Venus Loop , 1.35549, 103.81578, 15 Jun 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _ ENT00000724 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Lower Peirce Reservoir , 25Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00000117 View Materials ; same locality as previous, Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00000155 View Materials ; same locality as previous, 18 Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00000170 View Materials ; queens and workers, same locality as previous, 7 Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00000197 View Materials ; Mandai , 27 Jun 2019, J. Tan & N. Chin leg., NN-L01, ZRC _ ENT00013537 View Materials ; Mandai Road, Nov-Dec 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ HYM_0001424-1459; Nee Soon Swamp Forest , 1.38252, 103.80208, 25 Sep 2017, W. Wang leg., Winkler extraction, NS_W1, ZRC _ ENT00027908 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Rifle Range Road , 3 Jun 1993, collector unknown, NS110, ZRC _ HYM_0000190; male, Seletar Reservoir , 16 May 1994, collector unknown, NS 134B, ZRC _ ENT00000267 View Materials ; Upper Thomson Nature Park , 1.38311, 103.79839, Sep-Oct 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC GoogleMaps _HYM_0001397-1423.

Material not physically examined. Syntype workers, A.R. Wallace leg., SINC.55/9 ( BMNH), including CASENT0900666, ANTC19768 ( BMNH) [as type of Ponera transversa ]. Non-types – CASENT0249126, PSW10256- 1( PSWC); Harbourfront, Marang Trail, 4 Aug 2014, J.K. Wetterer leg., vial #473 ( JKWC).

Literature. Type – Smith (1857) [as Ponera transversa ]. Viehmeyer(1916); Overbeck (1924); Yamane (2009); Tan & Corlett (2012).

Localities. Bukit Batok East; Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Bukit Timah Road; Central Catchment Nature Reserve; Harbourfront; Lower Peirce Reservoir; Mandai; Mandai Road; Nee Soon Swamp Forest; Rifle Range Road; Seletar Reservoir; Upper Thomson Nature Park.

Habitat/Ecology. This species was found mostly in primary and old/mature secondary forests in Singapore, including swamp forest, frequently in or on leaf litter. Sometimes, individuals have been collected from well-developed young secondary forest such as abandoned plantation patches. In one instance, foragers were collected from inside an Anoplolepis gracilipes nest in a fallen rotting tree branch.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore.