Dacetinops cirrosus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines.

Nomenclature

 * . Dacetinops cirrosus Taylor, 1985: 56, figs. 1, 16-18 (w.q.m.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak, Sabah), WEST MALAYSIA.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 12+ paratype workers, 1 paratype queen.
 * Type-locality: holotype Malaysia: Sarawak, 1st Division, Semengo Forest Reserve, ca 19 km. SW Kuching (1°33’N, 110°20’E; ca 2 km. S of 10th mile Bazaar, on Kuching-Penrissen Road), 28.v., RWT acc. 68.121 (R.W. Taylor); paratypes: 4 workers, 1 queen with same data, 1 worker Sarawak, 4th Division, Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, 14.iii.1978, leaf litter (H. Vallack), 4 workers Sarawak, 4th Division, Gn. Mulu Nat. Park, v-vii. 1978 (J.E. Marshall); workers (colony) Sabah, Lungmanis, mile 45 (Labuk Rd, ex Sandakan), 12.vi.1968, acc. 68.462, small rotting log (R.W. Taylor); 1 worker Lungmanis, mile 45, (Labuk Rd), acc. 68.459, under bark on log (R.W. Taylor); workers (colony) Lungmanis, mile 43 (Labuk Rd), 13.vi.1968, acc. 68.503, small piece of rotting wood) (R.W. Taylor), workers (colony) Sabah, Sepilok Forest Reserve, nr Sandakan, 11.vi.1968, acc. 68.425, small rotting log (R.W. Taylor), 2 workers Sepilok Forest Reserve, 12.vi.1968, acc. 68.451, berlesate (R.W. Taylor), workers (two colonies) Sabah, Quoin Hill Research Station,nr Tawau, 17.vi.1968, acc. 68.532, and 19.vi.1968, acc. 68.599, small rotting log (R.W. Taylor), 2 workers Sabah, Quoin Hill Research Station, 19.vi.1968, accs 68.619, and 68.621, berlesates (R.W. Taylor).
 * Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); ANIC, BMNH, BPBM, HNHM, KUPC, MCZC, MHNG, SMNH (paratypes).
 * Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 168; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 46.
 * Distribution: Malaysia (Peninsula, Sabah, Sarawak).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Fayle T. M., E. C. Turner, J. L. Snaddon, V. Khen Chey, A. Y. C. Chung, P. Eggleton, and W. A. Foster. 2010. Oil palm expansion into rain forest greatly reduces ant biodiversity in canopy, epiphytes and leaf-litter. Basic and Applied Ecology 11: 337345.
 * General D. M., and G. D. Alpert. 2012. A synoptic review of the ant genera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Philippines. Zookeys 200: 1-111.
 * Pfeiffer M., and D. Mezger. 2012. Biodiversity Assessment in Incomplete Inventories: Leaf Litter Ant Communities in Several Types of Bornean Rain Forest. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40729. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040747
 * Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
 * Taylor, R. W. 1985. The ants of the Papuasian genus Dacetinops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Pp. 41-67 in: Ball, G. E. (ed.) 1985. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography of beetles and ants: a volume dedicated to the memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr., 1904-1983. Series Entomologica (Dordrecht) 33:1-514.