Ponera menglana Xu, 2001

Material examined. Bukit Timah forest, 6 Jun 1968, D.H. Murphy leg., D7-4, ZRC _ HYM_0000644; same locality and collection data as previous, D7-4, ZRC _HYM_0000649; Bukit Batok abandoned park, 28 Jan 2015, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00027964 ; queen and workers, Mandai Lake Road, Northern Node, 1°24’36.5”N, 103°47’04.0”, 53 m, 18 Jul 2019, J.S. Tan & N.L. Chin leg., Winkler extraction, JTNC_MIS_013, ZRC _ ENT00028291 .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Bukit Batok; Bukit Timah Nature Reserve; Mandai Lake Road.

Habitat/Ecology. This species is associated mostly with different grades of secondary forest (i.e., young, mature, old) at varying levels of disturbance, including waste woodland forest of an abandoned park. The ants were typically collected from rotten wood, leaf litter, and upper soil substrate.