Tetramorium obtusidens Viehmeyer, 1916

Hamer, Matthew T., Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung, Tse, Cheung Yau Leo, Silva, Thiago S. R. & Guénard, Benoit, 2022, Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy, Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) 15, pp. 1-152 : 110

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474475
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3138-FFC8-FD73-7AE3FC4AFB97
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tetramorium obtusidens Viehmeyer, 1916
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Tetramorium obtusidens Viehmeyer, 1916 View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah forest , collection date unknown, D.H. Murphy leg., A124-2, ZRC _ HYM_0000749; University Hall ( NUS), 1.29711, 103.77658, 1-8 Apr 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, NUS0008, ZRC _ BDP0045351 View Materials GoogleMaps ; same locality and collectors as previous, 10-17 Jun 2015, NUS0048, ZRC _ BDP0044430 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Type queens – FOCOL2072-2073 ( ZMHB) .

Literature. Type – Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924). Bolton (1977); Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Bukit Timah forest ; Jurong Road [type]; University Hall ( NUS) .

Habitat/Ecology. This species appears associated with primary and/or mature secondary forests in Singapore, including disturbed forest fragments in semi-urban settings. Queens have been found alongside other ant species such as Cataulacus praetextus and Technomoyrmex albipes in rotten branches.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore. The species was first described based on syntype queens (see Viehmeyer 1916), while the worker was described much later (see Bolton 1977) based on specimens from a locality different from that of the queen types, and also specimens from other countries.