Tetraponera attenuata Smith, 1877

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 : 137

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474655
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-31DD-FF2D-FF67-7EE3FB14FE98
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scientific name	Tetraponera attenuata Smith, 1877
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Tetraponera attenuata Smith, 1877 View in CoL

Material examined. Queen , Neo Tiew Lane, 16 Jul 2009, H.K. Lua leg., LHK 513, ZRC _ HYM_0000236; Rifle Range Road , 27 Jul 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ ENT00048104 View Materials ; Upper Thomson Nature Park , 1.38009, 103.8258, 4 Oct 2016, G.W. Yong et al. leg., uT7GH1860, ZRC _ ENT00048099 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. CASENT0752611, ANTC42333 ( CASC).

Literature. Forel (1907) [as Sima attenuata var. thagatensis ]; Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as Sima (Tetraponera) attenuata ]; Ward (2001).

Localities. Bukit Timah Road; Neo Tiew Lane; Rifle Range Road; Seletar Reservoir; Upper Thomson Nature Park.

Habitat/Ecology. This arboreal species is associated mainly old/mature secondary forests in Singapore, including abandoned plantation or just disturbed forest fragments in semi-urban settings. Some specimens were collected from above ground foliage using sweepnets.