Tetraponera volucris 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 : 140

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474673
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scientific name	Tetraponera volucris Ward, 2001
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Tetraponera volucris Ward, 2001 View in CoL

Material examined. None available.

Material not physically examined. Holotype alate queen, collection date and locality unspecified, 9209, C.F. Baker leg. ( MCZ).

Literature. Type – Ward (2001).

Localities. Unknown.

Habitat/Ecology. Unknown in the Singapore context.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore. At the time of writing, the only record of this species in Singapore is that of the holotype queen. The queen of T. volucris appears similar to that of T. vivax , but can be distinguished by its tridentate clypeal margin and widely separated frontal carinae, also other traits such as larger eyes, absence of malar pit, and more elongate postpetiole.