Tetraponera pilosa ( Smith, 1858 )

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 : 139

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
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scientific name	Tetraponera pilosa ( Smith, 1858 )
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Tetraponera pilosa ( Smith, 1858) View in CoL

Material examined. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , plot II-I, 15 Aug 2011, J. Koh leg., ZRC _ ENT00000889 View Materials ; Icube ( NUS), 1.29347, 103.77633, 6-13 May 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, ZRC _ BDP0044952 View Materials GoogleMaps ; queen, Kent Ridge , 10 Nov 1991, collector unknown, ZRC _ HYM_0001750; alate queen, Lim Chu Kang Mangrove , 19 May 1987, Serena Teo leg., ZRC _ ENT00048805 View Materials ; Mandai , 7 Apr 2016, M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _ ENT00000681-682 View Materials ; queen, Pulau Ubin, PU 1, 1°24’36.3”N, 103°59’25.5”E, 1-8 Sep 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., malaise trap, Reg. 29449, ZRC _ BDP0016492 View Materials GoogleMaps ; same locality and collectors as previous, 25 Aug-1 Sep 2012, malaise trap, Reg. 29436, ZRC _ BDP0015989 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Rifle Range Road , 27 Jul 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ ENT00048103 View Materials ; Toh Tuck wasteland, 5 Mar 1978, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _HYM_0000809.

Material not physically examined. CASENT0220765, PSW09567 ( UCDC); males and workers, CASENT0796714-796718 ( PSWC); queens, FOCOL1163-1165 ( ZMHB) [types of Pseudomyrma pilosa ] .

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [as Sima pilosa ]; Ward (2001); Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Bukit Timah Road; Kent Ridge; Lim Chu Kang Mangrove; Mandai; Peirce Reservoir; Pulau Ubin; Rifle Range Road; Toh Tuck.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with mature secondary forest and the edges/ fringes of such rainforest. It has sometimes also been found in scrub, wasteland, or disturbed secondary forest fragments in urban or semi-urban settings. Alates have been collect- ed from mangroves either using malaise traps, or in mud lobster ( Thalassina sp. ) mounds. Individuals in secondary forest or forest edges were often found in dead twigs, such as that of Hevea brasiliensis (rubber), and on low vegetation. Colonies in semi-urban settings such as gardens have also been found in dead twigs of mangosteen trees, and in withered bamboo.