Myrmicaria arachnoides (Smith, 1857)

Material examined. None available.

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924).

Localities. Bukit Timah Road

Habitat/Ecology. Alate queens and males were found at a lit-lamp in a garden; in the same garden, a dealate queen was also found in a small pasteboard cell on the underside of a leaf.

Remarks. At the time of writing, this species is only known from Singapore based on past literature records. A number of the alates collected at the same time by Overbeck were later on identified as the subspecies lutea and luteiventris respectively (see Viehmeyer 1922).