Ponera tenuis

Wilson (1957) reports this species foraging during the day in leaf litter on the floor of a mid-mountain rainforest. In Australia it is found in leaf litter, logs, moss and other situations on the ground, always in rainforests.

Distribution
This taxon was described from New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 *  tenuis. Cryptopone tenuis Emery, 1900c: 321, pl. 8, figs. 21, 22 (w.q.) NEW GUINEA. Combination in Pseudocryptopone: Wheeler, W.M. 1933g: 13; in Ponera: Wilson, 1957b: 373. Senior synonym of huonica: Taylor, 1967a: 98.
 * huonica. Ponera huonica Wilson, 1957b: 365, fig. 2 (w.q.m.) NEW GUINEA. Junior synonym of tenuis: Taylor, 1967a: 98.

Additional References

 * [[Media: Emery 1900c.pdf|Emery, C. (1900). Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek, 23: 310–338.]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1967a.pdf|Taylor, R. W. 1967a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pac. Insects Monogr. 13: 1-112]].


 * Wilson, E. O. (1957). The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 116: 355–386.