| Authorship |
Viehmeyer, 1916a:
152, figs. 11, 12
|
| Forms |
w.q.m. |
| Bioregion |
Indomalaya |
| Locality |
SINGAPORE |
| Etymology |
Viehmeyer does not explain the reasoning for the species name, but this likely refers to the club-shaped anterior part of antennae, mentioned in the original description (‘Geißel gegen Ende verdickt’: funinculus enlarged towards the tip). (Source: Klimeš et al., 2022: 565.) |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Singapore: 13: 95, 120, 124, 143, 183; 14: 8, 70 (no further data), (xi.1912-vi.1914) (H. Overbeck). Primary type depositories: DEIC, MCZC, MSNG, NHMB, ZMHB. Primary type specimens: workers: CASENT0101191, CASENT0101192, FOCOL0130, FOCOL2567, FOCOL2568, CASENT0178502; queen: FOCOL2566; males: FOCOL2564, FOCOL2565, CASENT0905180. |
| Type notes |
Klimeš et al., 2022: 565, adds the information: Singapore: 1°17′35.0″N, 103°51′21.0″E, 1915, nests in dry, narrow, hollow bamboo, colony in the hollow branch of a mango tree. |
