Metapone murphyi

The offshore island where M. murphyi was collected, Pulau Sakra, used to be mostly forest and swampland, before being merged with other islands in close vicinity and developed for establishment of oil refining facilities after 1985.

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

Nomenclature

 * . Metapone murphyi Wang, W.Y., Yamada & Eguchi, 2019: 128, figs. 1-23 (w.q.m.) SINGAPORE.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 2 paratype workers, 8 paratype queens, 2 paratype males.
 * Type-locality: holotype Singapore: Pulau Sakra, 7.iii.1981, DHM-81-Metapone, decayed coconut stump (D.H. Murphy); paratypes with same data.
 * Type-depository: LKCS.
 * Distribution: Singapore.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Wang W. Y., A. Yamada, K. Eguchi. 2019. Discovery of a new ant species of the elusive termitophilous genus Metapone in Singapore (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae), with the first detailed description of male genitalia of the genus. ZooKeys 876: 125–141.