Tetheamyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Tetheamyrma subspongia.[1] The genus is known only from two workers collected in a leaf litter sample in eastern Malaysia.[2]

Tetheamyrma
Tetheamyrma subspongia worker
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetheamyrma
Bolton, 1991
Species:
T. subspongia
Binomial name
Tetheamyrma subspongia
Bolton, 1991

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  1. ^ "Genus: Tetheamyrma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. ^ Bolton, B. (1991). "New myrmicine genera from the Oriental Region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Syst. Entomol. 16: 1–13. Bibcode:1991SysEn..16....1B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1991.tb00571.x.
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