Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893

Material examined. Mandai Lake Road, buffer area ( Northern Node), 1°24’36.5”N, 103°47’04.0”, 53m, 18 Jul 2019, J.S. Tan & N.L. Chin leg., Winkler extraction, ZRC _ ENT00028296 .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Mandai Lake Road

Habitat/Ecology. Individuals of this species were found in leaf litter and upper soil substrate from mature secondary forest.

Remarks. At the time of writing, this species is only known from one locality in Singapore.

Cryptopone testacea was first described from Sri Lanka, and currently appears to have a broad geographic distribution from the Malagasy region to Micronesia. Multiple species endemic to different regions have been synonymized under C. testacea, albeit with subtle morphological differences observed between the congeners. It remains possible that ‘ C. testacea ’ could comprise a complex of morphologically-similar species, but this issue may only be resolved with DNA evidence.