Tetramorium meshena, Bolton, 1976

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
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3138-FFC8-FF0F-7943FE30F997
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tetramorium meshena
status

Treatment

Tetramorium meshena View in CoL ( Bolton, 1976)

Material examined. Lower Peirce Reservoir , Forest A, 7 Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00000176 View Materials ; same locality, site and collection date as previous, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00000194 View Materials ; same locality as previous, Forest B, 25 Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00000115 View Materials ; same locality and site as previous, 10 Aug 1990, collector unknown, ZRC _ ENT00000227 View Materials ; Upper Thomson Nature Park , 1.38311, 103.79839, 17-19 Oct 2016, pitfall trap, UT5GPc1629, ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0001761; Pulau Ubin , 7 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg. ( SKYC) .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Lower Peirce Reservoir; Pulau Ubin; Upper Thomson Nature Park.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with primary or old/mature secondary forests in Singapore. Some specimens were collected from young abandoned plantation secondary forests. Individuals were usually found in leaf litter.