Vollenhovia escherichi Forel, 1911

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 : 113

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474498
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3125-FFD5-FF67-7E3CFEDEF8F7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Vollenhovia escherichi Forel, 1911
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Treatment

Vollenhovia escherichi Forel, 1911 View in CoL

Material examined. Pulau Ubin, 1.41662, 103.99443, 4 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong & M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001077; Pulau Ubin, Jalan Sam Heng, 15 Oct 2016, G.W. Yong et al. leg., ZRC _HYM_0001146 GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Pulau Ubin

Habitat/Ecology. This species was found in young and/or mature secondary forest; an individual was collected from leaf litter by Winkler extraction.

Remarks. At the time of writing, V. escherichi was identified only from an off-shore island northeast of the mainland. The species resembles Vollenhovia subtilis , but can be distinguished by the reticulate sculpture on head dorsum with larger interspaces or areola, larger eyes (also bulging more from sides of head in full face view), and postpetiole in dorsal view distinctly wider than long and as wide as the propodeum.