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Hymenoptera (Formicidae)-Ants

The following table lists the species in this taxon assessed under the Singapore Red List, which is also published in the third edition of the Singapore Red Data Book.

You may find information for the conservation statuses assessed in the second edition Singapore Red Data Book (RDB2) and third edition Singapore Red Data Book (RDB3).

The information below is accurate as at the time of the listing online for the taxon.

Checklist of Ant Species with their Category of Threat Status for Singapore

Prepared by Wendy Y. Wang

Family Genus Species Authority Common Name RDB2 RDB3
Formicidae Acanthomyrmex ferox Emery, 1893 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Acropyga acutiventris Roger, 1862 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Acropyga inezae Forel, 1912 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Acropyga oceanica Emery, 1900 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Acropyga rubescens Forel, 1894 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Aenictus camposi Wheeler & Chapman, 1925 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Aenictus cylindripetiolus Jaitrong & Yamane, 2013 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Aenictus gracilis Emery, 1893 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Aenictus seletarius Wong & Guenard, 2016 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Aenictus yamanei Wiwatwitaya & Jaitrong, 2011 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Anochetus agilis Emery, 1901 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Anochetus graeffei Mayr, 1870 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Anochetus incultus Brown, 1978 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Anochetus tua Brown, 1978 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Anoplolepis gracilipes (Smith, 1857) Yellow Crazy Ant Not Listed LC
Formicidae Aphaenogaster feae simulans Forel, 1915 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Brachyponera obscurans (Walker, 1859) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Buniapone amblyops (Emery, 1887) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Calyptomyrmex beccarii Emery, 1887 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Camponotus albosparsus Bingham, 1903 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Camponotus arrogans (Smith, 1858) Not Listed CR
Formicidae Camponotus bedoti Emery, 1893 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Camponotus irritans (Smith, 1857) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Camponotus reticulatus Roger, 1863 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Camponotus reticulatus sericellus Viehmeyer, H. (1916) ("1915"[sic]). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A), 81(8), 08-168. Not Listed DD
Formicidae Camponotus parius Emery, 1889 Not Listed LC
Formicidae Cardiocondyla obscurior Wheeler, 1929 Not Listed LC
Formicidae Cardiocondyla tjibodana Karavaiev, 1935 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Cardiocondyla wroughtonii (Forel, 1890) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Carebara affinis (Jerdon, 1851) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Carebara diversa (Jerdon, 1851) Marauder Ant Not Listed LC
Formicidae Carebara overbecki (Viehmeyer, H. (1916) ("1915"[sic]). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A), 81(8), 08-168.) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Carebara silenus (Smith, 1858) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Cataulacus granulatus (Latreille, 1802) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Cataulacus horridus Smith, 1857 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Cataulacus nenassus Bolton, 1974 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Centromyrmex feae greeni (Emery, 1889) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Centromyrmex hamulatus (Karavaiev, 1925) Not Listed EN
Formicidae Chronoxenus wroughtonii (Forel, 1895) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Colobopsis vitrea (Smith, 1860) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Crematogaster anthracina Smith, 1857 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Crematogaster bandarensis Forel, 1913 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Crematogaster borneensis André, 1896 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Crematogaster coriaria Mayr, 1872 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Crematogaster difformis Smith, 1857 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Crematogaster ferrarii Emery, 1888 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Crematogaster inflata Smith, 1857 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Crematogaster linsenmairi Feldhaar, Maschwitz & Fiala, 2016 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Crematogaster longipilosa Forel, 1907 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Crematogaster modiglianii Emery, 1900 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Crematogaster myops Forel, 1911 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Crematogaster quadriruga Forel, 1911 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Crematogaster sewardi Forel, 1901 Not Listed LC
Formicidae Crematogaster subnuda discinodis Emery, 1893 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Crematogaster treubi Emery, 1896 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Crematogaster yappi Forel, 1901 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Cryptopone butteli Forel, 1913 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Diacamma geometricum (Smith, 1857) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Diacamma pallidum (Smith, 1858) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Diacamma rugosum (Le Guillou, 1842) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Diacamma vagans (Smith, 1860) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Dilobocondyla fulva Viehmeyer, H. (1916) ("1915"[sic]). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A), 81(8), 08-168. Not Listed DD
Formicidae Dinomyrmex gigas (Latreille, 1802) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Discothyrea bryanti (Wheeler, 1917) Not Listed EN
Formicidae Discothyrea sauteri Forel, 1912 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Dolichoderus affinis Emery, 1889 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Dolichoderus indrapurensis Forel, 1912 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Dolichoderus sulcaticeps (Mayr, 1870) Not Listed CR
Formicidae Dorylus laevigatus (Smith, 1857) Driver Ant Not Listed EN
Formicidae Echinopla lineata Mayr, 1862 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Ectomomyrmex leeuwenhoeki (Forel, 1896) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Ectomomyrmex overbecki (Viehmeyer, 1916) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Emeryopone buttelreepeni Forel, 1912 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Euponera sharpi Forel, 1901 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Euprenolepis procera (Emery, 1900) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Eurhopalothrix heliscata Wilson & Brown, 1985 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Eurhopalothrix omnivaga Taylor, 1990 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Eurhopalothrix procera (Emery, 1897) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Stictoponera binghamii (Forel, 1900) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Stictoponera coxalis (Roger, 1860) Not Listed EN
Formicidae Holcoponera cribrata (Emery, 1900) Not Listed EN
Formicidae Stictoponera hyalina Lattke, 2004 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Stictoponera ortostoma Lattke, 2004 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Stictoponera posteropsis (Gregg, 1951) Not Listed CR
Formicidae Harpegnathos venator (Smith, 1858) Giant Jumping Ant CR CR
Formicidae Hypoponera singaporensis (Viehmeyer, 1916) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Iridomyrmex anceps (Roger, 1863) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Leptanilla hypodracos Wong & Guénard, 2016 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Leptogenys diminuta (Smith, 1857) Not Listed CR
Formicidae Leptogenys hemioptica Forel, 1901 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Leptogenys kraepelini Forel, 1905 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Leptogenys mutabilis (Smith, 1861) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Leptogenys peuqueti (André, 1887) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Leptogenys processionalis (Jerdon, 1851) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Liomyrmex gestroi (Emery, 1887) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Lioponera singaporensis (Viehemyer, 1916) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Mayriella transfuga Baroni Urbani, 1977 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Meranoplus bicolor (Guérin-Méneville, 1844) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Meranoplus mucronatus Smith, 1857 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Mesoponera rubra (Smith, 1857) Not Listed CR
Formicidae Metapone murphyi Wang, Yamada & Eguchi, 2019 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Myopopone castanea (Smith, 1860) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Myrmecina bandarensis Forel, 1913 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Myrmecina magnificens Wong & Guénard, 2016 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Myrmicaria adpressipilosa Santschi, 1928 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Myrmicaria arachnoides lutea Emery, 1900 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Myrmicaria luteiventris Emery, 1900 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Myrmicaria melanogaster Emery, 1900 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Myrmoteras bakeri Wheeler, 1919 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Myrmoteras barbouri Creighton, 1930 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Mystrium camillae Emery, 1889 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Nylanderia bourbonica (Forel, 1886) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Ochetellus glaber (Mayr, 1862) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Odontomachus litoralis Wang, Yamada & Yamane, 2020 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Odontomachus malignus Smith, 1859 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Odontomachus rixosus Smith, 1857 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Odontomachus simillimus Smith, 1858 Not Listed LC
Formicidae Odontoponera denticulata (Smith, 1858) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Odontoponera transversa (Smith, 1857) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius, 1775) Red Weaver Ant Not Listed LC
Formicidae Ooceraea biroi (Forel, 1907) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Paraparatrechina opaca (Emery, 1887) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Paratopula demeta Bolton, 1988 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Paratopula oculata (Smith, 1857) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Parvaponera darwinii (Forel, 1893) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Pheidole aglae Forel, 1913 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Pheidole aristotelis Forel, 1911 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Pheidole binghamii Forel, 1902 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Pheidole cariniceps Eguchi, 2001 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Pheidole clypeocornis Eguchi, 2001 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Pheidole fervens Smith, 1858 Not Listed LC
Formicidae Pheidole nodgii verlatenensis Wheeler, 1937 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Pheidole parva Mayr, 1865 Not Listed LC
Formicidae Pheidole plagiaria Smith, 1860 Not Listed LC
Formicidae Pheidole plinii Forel, 1911 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Pheidole rugifera Eguchi, 2001 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Pheidole sexspinosa Mayr, 1870 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Pheidole singaporensis Özdikmen, 2010 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Pheidole tandjongensis Forel, 1913 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Pheidole tjibodana Forel, 1905 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Pheidole umbonata Mayr, 1870 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Philidris cordata (Smith, 1859) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Philidris laevigata (Emery, 1895) Not Listed EN
Formicidae Platythyrea parallela (Smith, 1859) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Polyrhachis abdominalis Smith, 1858 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Polyrhachis armata (Le Guillou, 1842) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Polyrhachis beccarii Mayr, 1872 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Polyrhachis bicolor Smith, 1858 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Polyrhachis carbonaria Smith, 1857 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Polyrhachis chalybea Smith, 1857 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Polyrhachis dives Smith, 1857 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Polyrhachis hosei Donisthorpe, 1942 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Polyrhachis illaudata Walker, 1859 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Polyrhachis inermis Smith, 1858 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Polyrhachis lepida Kohout, 2006 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Polyrhachis nigropilosa Mayr, 1872 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Polyrhachis olybria Forel, 1912 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Polyrhachis orsylla ritsemai Mayr, 1883 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Polyrhachis proxima Roger, 1863 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Polyrhachis pruinosa Mayr, 1872 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Polyrhachis saevissima Smith, 1860 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Polyrhachis thrinax inconstans Viehmeyer, H. (1916) ("1915"[sic]). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A), 81(8), 08-168. Not Listed DD
Formicidae Polyrhachis thrinax overbecki Dorow, 1995 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Polyrhachis vindex Smith, 1857 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Ponera swezeyi (Wheeler, 1933) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Prenolepis jerdoni Emery, 1893 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Prenolepis subopaca Emery, 1900 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Prionopelta kraepelini Forel, 1905 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Pristomyrmex costatus Wang, 2003 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Pristomyrmex punctatus (Smith, 1860) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Proatta butteli Forel, 1912 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Probolomyrmex vieti Eguchi et al. 2006 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Probolomyrmex watanabei Tanaka, 1974 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Proceratium deelemani Perrault, 1981 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Proceratium malesianum De Andrade, 2003 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Protanilla rafflesi Taylor, 1990 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Pseudoneoponera rufipes (Jerdon, 1851) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Pseudoneoponera tridentata (Smith, 1858) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Rhopalomastix glabricephala Wang et al., 2018 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Rhopalomastix javana Wheeler, 1929 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Rhopalomastix johorensis Wheeler, 1929 Not Listed LC
Formicidae Rhopalomastix murphyi Wang et al., 2018 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Rhopalomastix striata Wang et al., 2018 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Rhopalomastix tenebra Wang, Yong & Jaitrong, 2018 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Rostromyrmex pasohensis Rosciszewski, 1994 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Rotastruma recava Bolton, 1991 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Simopone bakeri Menozzi, 1926 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Stigmatomma besucheti (Baroni Urbani, 1978) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Stigmatomma reclinatum (Mayr, 1879) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Strumigenys chapmani Brown, 1954 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Strumigenys extemena (Taylor, 1968) Not Listed CR
Formicidae Strumigenys sublaminata Brown, 1959 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Strumigenys godeffroyi Mayr, 1866 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Strumigenys juliae Forel, 1905 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Strumigenys koningsbergeri Forel, 1905 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Strumigenys kraepelini Forel, 1905 Not Listed CR
Formicidae Strumigenys mitis (Brown, 2000) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Strumigenys nanzanensis Lin & Wu, 1996 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Strumigenys nepalensis Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 1994 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Strumigenys rofocala Bolton, 2000 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Strumigenys szalayi Emery, 1897 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Strumigenys sydorata Bolton, 2000 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Technomyrmex albipes (Smith, 1861) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Technomyrmex horni Forel, 1912 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Technomyrmex kraepelini Forel, 1905 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Technomyrmex pratensis (Smith, 1860) Not Listed EN
Formicidae Technomyrmex schimmeri Viehmeyer, H. (1916) ("1915"[sic]). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A), 81(8), 08-168. Not Listed VU
Formicidae Technomyrmex textor Forel, 1909 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Technomyrmex vitiensis Mann, 1921 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander, 1846) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Tetramorium insolens (Smith, 1861) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Tetramorium kheperra (Bolton, 1976) Not Listed DD
Formicidae Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870 Wooly Ant Not Listed DD
Formicidae Tetramorium meshena (Bolton, 1976) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Tetramorium obtusidens Viehmeyer, H. (1916) ("1915"[sic]). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A), 81(8), 08-168. Not Listed EN
Formicidae Tetramorium pacificum Mayr, 1870 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Tetramorium smithi Mayr, 1879 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Tetramorium tonganum Mayr, 1870 Not Listed NT
Formicidae Tetraponera allaborans (Walker, 1859) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Tetraponera attenuata Smith, 1877 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Tetraponera difficilis (Emery, 1900) Not Listed VU
Formicidae Tetraponera extenuata Ward, 2001 Not Listed VU
Formicidae Tetraponera modesta (Smith, 1860) Not Listed EN
Formicidae Tetraponera nitida (Smith, 1860) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Tetraponera pilosa (Smith, 1858) Not Listed NT
Formicidae Tetraponera rufonigra (Jerdon, 1851) Not Listed LC
Formicidae Tetraponera vivax Ward, 2001 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Tetraponera volucris Ward, 2001 Not Listed DD
Formicidae Tyrannomyrmex rex Fernández, 2003 Not Listed EN
Formicidae Vollenhovia rufiventris Forel, 1901 Not Listed CR
Last updated on 24 May 2024

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