Abundance: 0.02 to 57.89% (median 2.15%)

Latitudinal range: -32.0° to 51.1°

Habitats: Mediterranean woodland (2), desert/xeric shrubland (5), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (9), temperate savanna (2), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (14), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (27), tropical/subtropical savanna (9)

Found in 68 samples

Australia: Durokoppin Reserve (heath), Bowen Basin Site A, Perth garden (control 1), Territory Wildlife Park (leaf litter), Territory Wildlife Park (ground), Territory Wildlife Park (arboreal), Purnululu National Park (spinifex), Durokoppin Reserve (yellow sand farmland), Mitchell Falls (laterite), Eneabba (1980, control C1)

Belgium: Campine region

Cameroon: Bokito (2006), La Belqique (near primary forest), La Belqique (very old secondary forest), Biyem-Assi-superette, Nko'ondo and Djazeng

China: Mount Demula and Bomi Valley, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Shenzhen City (park), Pu'er City, Lüchun County, Shuangjiang County, Mojiang County

Colombia: El Cipres (regeneration area), El Cipres (pasture), El Cipres (fodder banks)

Egypt: St. Catherine (CA1)

Ghana: Southern Ghana

India: Sharavathi River Basin (deciduous forest), Uppungala, Sharavathi River Basin (Acacia plantations), Sharavathi River Basin (scrub jungles), Sharavathi River Basin (evergreen forests)

Indonesia: Bogor Botanic Garden

Italy: Castelporziano Natural Reserve cultivated fields (May), Castelporziano Natural Reserve cultivated fields (July)

Ivory Coast: Lamto reserve (forest), Lamto reserve (rural forest), Lamto reserve (food crop plantations), Lamto reserve (cocoa plantations), Lamto reserve (pineapple plantations)

Madagascar: Réserve Naturelle Intégrale d'Andohahela (430 m)

Malaysia: Kinabulu National Park (BD epigaeic pitfall traps), Perak Integrated Timber Complex (2008), Perak Integrated Timber Complex (2009), Ginseng Camp (winkler bag), Ginseng Camp (pitfall trap, 100 m transect)

Mexico: Jardín Botánico de Zapotitlán de las Salinas, Mapimi Biosphere Reserve (Conglomerate Hill), Jocotitlán (primary forest), El Oro de Hidalgo (mixed forest), San José Del Rincón (reforested forest)

New Caledonia: Rivière Bleue (1999), Rivière Bleue (2000)

Papua New Guinea: Popondetta

Portugal: Mirandela

South Africa: Tussen-die-Riviere Game Farm (Acacia karoo), N3 Highway, Marakele National Park (M1), Satara area (large pitfall traps), Soutpansberg Mountain Range (woodland)

Spain: Benifallet

Thailand: Thong Pha Phum National Park (NF5), Sri Nan National Park (winter), Khao Chong Botanic Garden (under Parashorea stellata tree crowns, dry season), Khao Chong Botanic Garden (under Parashorea stellata tree crowns, wet season)

United States: New York City medians, Monongahela National Forest

See also Tetramorium 11 (lucayanum), Tetramorium 12 (pylacum), Tetramorium 15 (osiris), Tetramorium 18 (sitefrum), Tetramorium 19 (weitzeckeri), Tetramorium 4 (brevispinosum), Tetramorium 7 (dumezi), Tetramorium 9 (furtivum), Tetramorium UOVC_01 (squaminode gp.), Tetramorium UOVC_04 (gabonense gp.), Tetramorium UOVC_07 (weitzeckeri gp.), Tetramorium UOVC_08 (simillimum gp.), Tetramorium UOVC_11 (squaminode gp.), Tetramorium UOVC_12 (squaminode gp.), Tetramorium UOVC_18 (simillimum gp.), Tetramorium UOVC_19 (simillimum gp.), Tetramorium aculeatum, Tetramorium akermani, Tetramorium amentete, Tetramorium antrema, Tetramorium ataxium, Tetramorium avium, Tetramorium baufra, Tetramorium bicarinatum, Tetramorium brevispinosum, Tetramorium brevispinosus, Tetramorium caespitum, Tetramorium calinum, Tetramorium camerunense, Tetramorium ciliatum, Tetramorium coloreum, Tetramorium cuneinode, Tetramorium cyclolobium, Tetramorium depressiceps, Tetramorium diomandei, Tetramorium distinctum, Tetramorium eleates, Tetramorium electrum, Tetramorium eminii, Tetramorium flavithorax, Tetramorium frigidum, Tetramorium furtivum, Tetramorium gabonense, Tetramorium guineense, Tetramorium ictidum, Tetramorium inglebyi, Tetramorium insolens, Tetramorium intonsum, Tetramorium invictum, Tetramorium jugatum, Tetramorium kheperra, Tetramorium kraepelini, Tetramorium laevithorax, Tetramorium lanuginosum, Tetramorium laparum, Tetramorium longicorne, Tetramorium lucayanum, Tetramorium magnificum, Tetramorium melanogynum, Tetramorium menkaura, Tetramorium minimum, Tetramorium mixtum, Tetramorium muralti, Tetramorium muscorum, Tetramorium n. sp. convexum group, Tetramorium n. sp. dumezi group, Tetramorium n. sp. weitzeckeri group, Tetramorium neshena, Tetramorium notiale, Tetramorium nursei, Tetramorium pacificum, Tetramorium peutli, Tetramorium pylacum, Tetramorium quadridentatum, Tetramorium quadrispinosum, Tetramorium rhetidum, Tetramorium semilaeve, Tetramorium sepositum, Tetramorium sericeiventre, Tetramorium setigerum, Tetramorium setuliferum, Tetramorium similinum, Tetramorium simillimum, Tetramorium sjostedti, Tetramorium smithi, Tetramorium sp., Tetramorium sp. 1, Tetramorium sp. 1 (striolatum gp.), Tetramorium sp. 10, Tetramorium sp. 15, Tetramorium sp. 16, Tetramorium sp. 17 squaminode group, Tetramorium sp. 18, Tetramorium sp. 18 bicarinatum group, Tetramorium sp. 2, Tetramorium sp. 2 (striolatum gp.), Tetramorium sp. 2 of NZA, Tetramorium sp. 22, Tetramorium sp. 23, Tetramorium sp. 23 of SKY, Tetramorium sp. 27, Tetramorium sp. 3, Tetramorium sp. 3 of NZA, Tetramorium sp. 4, Tetramorium sp. 5, Tetramorium sp. 7 simillimum group, Tetramorium sp. 8, Tetramorium sp. 9, Tetramorium sp. A, Tetramorium sp. A (spininode group), Tetramorium sp. B, Tetramorium sp. D (striolatum group), Tetramorium sp. D21, Tetramorium sp. D27, Tetramorium sp. D69, Tetramorium sp. D70, Tetramorium sp. E (Group A), Tetramorium sp. F (striolatum gp.), Tetramorium sp. JDM 36, Tetramorium sp. L (Group A), Tetramorium spinosum, Tetramorium spp., Tetramorium tonganum, Tetramorium tortuosum, Tetramorium umtaliense, Tetramorium walshi, Tetramorium wilsoni, Tetramorium youngi, Tetramorium zambesium, Tetramorium zambezium, Tetramorium zapyrum