The 12 known species of Vombisidris range from India to Queensland, Australia, with most of them occurring in Malaysia and Indonesia1. These ants are poorly represented in earlier collections, perhaps because they nest and forage arboreally and would thus tend to be overlooked by most ant-collectors2. The only known species from India (Mudigere, Karnataka) is Vombisidris occidua Bolton, collected from low vegetation1.

The species described here is the second Vombisidris from the Western Ghats. Also described is the queen of this new species.
Queens of only three species of Vombisidris are known1,2. The workers along with the queen are known to nest in the domatia of two Humboldtia spp.; H. decurrens Bedd. (Figure 1 a) and H. brunonis Wall.