Proceratium papuanum Emery, 1897

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 : 136

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474650
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scientific name	Proceratium papuanum Emery, 1897
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Proceratium papuanum Emery, 1897 View in CoL

Material examined. Queen , Pulau Ubin, 1.41662, 103.99443, 4 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong & M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _HYM_0001092; GoogleMaps queen, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , 28 Mar 2018, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00000961 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Pulau Ubin; Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.

Habitat/Ecology. This species was identified based on queens collected from disturbed old/ mature secondary forest, and also mangroves. Actual nesting sites are unknown.

Remarks. The queens from Singapore identified as P. papuanum confer mostly with the original description of the species, but differ from the holotype queen in terms of body coloration – the Singapore queens appear darker in coloration. At the time of writing, we undertake the assumption that this might be a case of intraspecific variation among allopatric populations.