Descriptions of some hymenopterous insects captured in India, with notes on their oeconomy, by Ezra T. Downes, Esq., who presented them to the Honourable the East India Company. Petiole and postpetiole rounded. Tetraponera includes about 60 described species. Around 40 are known from tropical Asia, but their species-level taxonomy is not well resolved. Nests are found in trees, often in hollow twigs.
Workers forage arboreally or on the ground.
The Genus is represented in Japan by a single nomenclaturally undetermined species. Editor of the descriptions Original text by Kazuo Ogata. English translation by Kazuo Ogata, edited by Robert W. Taylor.