Pheidole fervens Smith 1858
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| author | Hamer, Matthew T. Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung Tse, Cheung Yau Leo Silva, Thiago S. R. Guénard, Benoit |
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| contents | <p><b><i>Pheidole fervens</i> Smith, 1858</b></p><p><b>Material examined.</b> Labrador beach, 29 Apr 1985, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000728.</p><p><b>Material not physically examined.</b> Syntypes – CASENT0901519 -0901520, ANTC21037 (BMNH).</p><p><b>Literature.</b> Type – Smith (1858). Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as <i>Pheidole javana</i>]. Eguchi (2001, 2004); Sarnat et al. (2015).</p><p><b>Localities.</b> Bukit Timah Road; Labrador beach.</p><p><b>Habitat/Ecology.</b> This species is associated with a wide variety of habitats in Singapore, especially in heavily disturbed areas in urban and/ or semi-urban settings such as public beaches, roadsides, and forest edges. Nests were typically found in soil or under stones, also in rotten wood, and in dead tree stumps filled with ‘humus’ or other debris. In one instance, a colony was observed underneath a decaying fallen tree, ‘partly in the tree’ and ‘partly in (sic) the ground.’</p><p><b>Remarks.</b> Type locality in Singapore. Substantial numbers of specimens of this species were observed amongst existing unsorted and uncatalogued museum material. Thus it could be inferred that the species is much more common than was represented by official catalogued records of the ZRC, at the time of writing. It is known as a globally widespread and potentially invasive species, and could be native to a large part of the Indomalayan bioregion or the Oceanic region (Sarnat et al. 2015).</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Pheidole fervens Smith 1858 Hamer, Matthew T. Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung Tse, Cheung Yau Leo Silva, Thiago S. R. Guénard, Benoit Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Formicidae Pheidole Pheidole fervens <p><b><i>Pheidole fervens</i> Smith, 1858</b></p><p><b>Material examined.</b> Labrador beach, 29 Apr 1985, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000728.</p><p><b>Material not physically examined.</b> Syntypes – CASENT0901519 -0901520, ANTC21037 (BMNH).</p><p><b>Literature.</b> Type – Smith (1858). Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as <i>Pheidole javana</i>]. Eguchi (2001, 2004); Sarnat et al. (2015).</p><p><b>Localities.</b> Bukit Timah Road; Labrador beach.</p><p><b>Habitat/Ecology.</b> This species is associated with a wide variety of habitats in Singapore, especially in heavily disturbed areas in urban and/ or semi-urban settings such as public beaches, roadsides, and forest edges. Nests were typically found in soil or under stones, also in rotten wood, and in dead tree stumps filled with ‘humus’ or other debris. In one instance, a colony was observed underneath a decaying fallen tree, ‘partly in the tree’ and ‘partly in (sic) the ground.’</p><p><b>Remarks.</b> Type locality in Singapore. Substantial numbers of specimens of this species were observed amongst existing unsorted and uncatalogued museum material. Thus it could be inferred that the species is much more common than was represented by official catalogued records of the ZRC, at the time of writing. It is known as a globally widespread and potentially invasive species, and could be native to a large part of the Indomalayan bioregion or the Oceanic region (Sarnat et al. 2015).</p> |
| title | Pheidole fervens Smith 1858 |
| topic | Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Formicidae Pheidole Pheidole fervens |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474361 |