Prenolepis jerdoni Emery, 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 : 65

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474191
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3115-FFE5-FD4B-7A9CFBBFFA77
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Prenolepis jerdoni Emery, 1893
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Prenolepis jerdoni Emery, 1893 View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , BT07, 1.35499, 103.78167, 28 Sep 2016, W. Wang leg., leaf litter, winkler extraction, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0000569; same locality, collection date and collector as previous, leaf litter, winkler extraction, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0000570; male, I-Cube building ( NUS), 1.29347, 103.77633, 24 Mar-1 Apr 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, NUS0002, ZRC _ BDP0044670 View Materials GoogleMaps ; University Hall ( NUS), 1.29711, 103.77658, 13-20 May 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, NUS0032, ZRC _ BDP0044799 View Materials GoogleMaps ; males, Nee Soon Swamp Forest , NS2, 1°23’04.2”N, 103°48’40.7”E, 28 Mar-4 Apr 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., malaise trap, Reg. 29158, ZRC _ BDP0015151 View Materials , 15168 View Materials , 15924 View Materials GoogleMaps ; same locality as previous, 1.38245, 103.80206, 46 m, 26 Apr 2018, W. Wang leg., winkler extraction, NS_W2, ZRC _ ENT00000956 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924); Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Ayer Terjun (archaic place name); Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Bukit Timah Road; National University of Singapore campus; Nee Soon Swamp Forest.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with old or mature secondary forests, as well as young secondary habitats such as Adinandra belukar dominated forest in Singapore. Both alates (males and queens) and workers have been collected, the former in great abundance, using malaise traps in swamp forest. The ants can also be found in disturbed secondary forest fragments in urban or semi-urban settings.