Tetraponera nitida (Smith, 1860)

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
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474665
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-31DF-FF2F-FF67-7AE2FE17F9F7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tetraponera nitida (Smith, 1860)
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Tetraponera nitida (Smith, 1860) View in CoL

Material examined. HortPark , 1.27954, 103.79759, 25 Feb 2016, Boyi Zhou leg., ZRC _ ENT00000680 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Kent Ridge , 12 Jun 1970, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000810; Kranji Road , 27-29 Jan 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC _ ENT00048101-48102 View Materials ; Pulau Semakau Old Fragment , SMO3, 1°12’23.9”N, 103°45’37.6”E, 8-15 Nov 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., malaise trap, Reg. 29578, ZRC _ BDP0016208 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Pulau Ubin , 7 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., ZRC _HYM_0000473.

Material not physically examined. CASENT 0220763, PSW 10251 ( UCDC); queens, males and workers, CASENT0796308-796314 ( PSWC); queen and workers, FOCOL1172-1175 ( ZMHB) [types of Sima siggi var. setifera ]; males, FOCOL1182-1184 ( ZMHB) [types of Sima difficilis r. longiceps ].

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [as Sima (Tetraponera) difficilis longiceps and S. siggi var. setifera ]; Ward (2001).

Localities. Bukit Timah; Bukit Timah Road; HortPark; Kent Ridge; Kranji Road; Lim Chu Kang; Mandai mangrove; Pulau Semakau; Pulau Ubin; Seletar Reservoir.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with disturbed secondary habitats especially rainforest edges/fringes and mangroves or mangrove forests in Singapore. On a few occasions, individuals were collected from secondary forest fragments in semi-urban settings. At rainforest edges, individuals have been found in dead twigs of Mallotus sp. and on Bromheadia (orchids). In mangroves or mangrove forest, the species was found on low vegetation, and in dead twigs of Avicennia alba . The species has also been found nesting in hollow branches of Chiku trees, and the hollowed-out pith-channel of a bough in a mangosteen tree.