Tetraponera extenuata Ward, 2001

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 : 138

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
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scientific name	Tetraponera extenuata Ward, 2001
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Tetraponera extenuata Ward, 2001 View in CoL

Material examined. Paratype - BukitTimah , 100m, 20 Nov 1988, P.S. Ward leg., ZRC _ 6_20705. Non-types - Mandai Bike Trail , 1.4083, 103.77803, 19 Jun 2016, M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _ ENT00000678 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Nee Soon Swamp Forest , NS2, 1°23’04.2”N, 103°48’40.7”E, 2-9 May 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., malaise trap, Reg. 29221, ZRC _ BDP0014635 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Pulau Ubin , PU1, 1°24’36.3”N, 103°59’25.5”E, 12- 19 Oct 2013, M.S. Foo et al. leg., malaise trap, Reg. 30212, ZRC _ BDP0016184 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Holotype – CASENT0902824, PSW09570 ( BMNH) . Paratypes – CASENT0761615, PSW09570 ( PSWC) ; queen and work- ers, CASENT 0796004 - 796007, PSW09570 ( PSWC). Non-types – CASENT0796008-796011 ( PSWC); CASENT0217591 , ANTC17842 ( CASC) .

Literature. Type — Ward (2001).

Localities. Bukit Timah [type]; Kent Ridge; Mandai; Nee Soon Swamp Forest ; Peirce Reservoir ; Pulau Ubin ; Seletar Reservoir .

Habitat/Ecology. This arboreal species is associated mostly with primary or old/mature secondary forests in Singapore, including native-dominated secondary rainforest and freshwater swamp forest. Both colonies and individuals, including the type series, have been found in dead twigs of Timonius sp. and Rhodamnia trinervia . Individuals have occasionally been collected in malaise traps set up in mangroves and swamp forest.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore.