Tetramorium tonganum Mayr, 1870

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 : 111

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474485
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scientific name	Tetramorium tonganum Mayr, 1870
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Tetramorium tonganum Mayr, 1870 View in CoL

Material examined. Prince George’s Park Residences ( NUS), 1.29239, 103.77869, Apr-May 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, ZRC _ BDP0045634 View Materials , -46101, -46770; Pulau Ubin, 7 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000455-456 GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Prince George’s Park Residences ( NUS); Pulau Ubin.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated with young secondary habitat in Singapore, mostly disturbed secondary forest fragments within semi-urban settings, or close to man-made infrastructure.

Remarks. It has been surmised that Java and Sumba (both part of Indonesia) represent the west-most limits of the species native range, and that populations in Malaysia and Singapore are possibly introduced ( Bolton 1977).