Pheidole aglae Forel, 1913

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 : 89

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474347
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scientific name	Pheidole aglae Forel, 1913
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Pheidole aglae Forel, 1913 View in CoL

Material examined. Sunset Way, 1.32609, 103.77187, 21-23 Sep 2016, G.W. Yong leg., pitfall trap, SW5GPc324, ZRC _ HYM_0001779 GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. FOCOL1356 ( ZMHB) [type of P. exasperata var. polita – now invalid name] .

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as Pheidole exasperata var. polita ]; Eguchi (2001); Tan & Corlett (2012).

Localities. Bukit Timah Hill; MacRitchie Reservoir; Sunset Way.

Habitat/Ecology. This species was found mostly in primary or mature secondary forests in Singapore, sometimes young secondary habitats such as abandoned plantation secondary forests. Colonies have been found in rotten branches and rotting wood on the forest floor.