Dolichoderus butteli

Forel (1913) - 3,500 feet; keeping scale insects inside galleries made of soil material on stem and twigs of small tree. Dill (2002) - Peninsular Malaysia: Genting Highlands, Maxwell Hill: pavilion nests made of carton on twigs and vines containing brood and coccids.

Identification
Dill (2002) - This species is well defined and easily distinguishable by the typical shape of its almost saddle-like propodeum, its sculpturing (head finely reticulate-punctate and shining, alitrunk coarsely areolate-rugose), and the broad pronotum with its laterally edged dorsal face.

Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia. Sumatra.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia.

Nomenclature

 *  butteli. Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea) butteli Forel, 1913k: 89 (w.) INDONESIA (Sumatra).

Type Material
Dill (2002) - Workers, Sumatra: Bandar Baroe (v. Buttel-Reepen). Syntypes.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
 * Dill M. 2002. Taxonomy of the migrating herdsmen species of the genus Dolichoderus Lund, 1831, with remarks on the systematics of other southeast-Asian Dolichoderus. Pp. 17-113 in: Dill, M.; Williams, D. J.; Maschwitz, U. 2002. Herdsmen ants and their mealybug partners. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 557: 1-373.
 * Dill M., D.J. Williams, and U. Maschwitz. 2002. Herdsmen ants and their mealybug partners. Abh. senckenberg. naturforsch. Ges. 557: 1-373.
 * Forel A. 1913. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. v. Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911-1912. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 36:1-148.
 * Shattuck S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112: i-xix, 1-241.