Tetramorium smithi Mayr, 1879

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.15474483
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-313B-FFCB-FD4B-7BA3FC41FC77
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tetramorium smithi Mayr, 1879
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Treatment

Tetramorium smithi Mayr, 1879 View in CoL

Material examined. Kent Ridge , 25 Apr 1985, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000756; Mandai Lake Road, N 01°24’19.3’’, E 103°46’56.2’’, 73 m a.s.l., 26 Mar 2020, W. Zhang leg., ZRC _ ENT00047776 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as Xiphomyrmex smithi var. kanarense ]. Tan & Corlett (2012).

Localities. Bukit Timah Road; Kent Ridge.

Habitat/Ecology. This tiny species was found mostly in disturbed young or mature secondary forests, in clay mounds and fallen rotting wood or logs. A colony was also found in the ground of a garden.