Lioponera singaporensis

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Lioponera singaporensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Lioponera
Species: L. singaporensis
Binomial name
Lioponera singaporensis
(Viehmeyer, 1916)

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Specimen Labels

Brown (1975) - Species of the longitarsus group (=Lioponera) tend to nest in hollow twigs, beetle burrows, or other channels in wood, branches, or bark, and it is possible that they are all arboreal or subarboreal. Cerapachys singaporensis was taken originally nesting in a hollow mango twig. Lioponera foreli has been taken by Raignier and van Boven in hollow twigs in Zaire (personal communication), and I have found this species climbing a tree trunk in sparse single file in a copse in the Dabou Savanna, Ivory Coast.

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Singapore (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • singaporensis. Phyracaces singaporensis Viehmeyer, 1916a: 110 (w., ergatandromorph) SINGAPORE.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype ergatandromorph.
    • Type-locality: Singapore: 14:61, in hollow Mangifera twig (H. Overbeck).
    • Type-depositories: MNHU, NHMB.
    • Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 23;
    • combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 164.
    • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 22; Brown, 1975: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 144.
    • Distribution: Singapore.

Description

References