Tetraponera atra valid New Guinea (Indonesia). Australasia.
Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506.   124366

Tetraponera atrata synonym of Tetraponera nigra India (Maharashtra). Indomalaya.
Smith, F. 1852. Descriptions of some hymenopterous insects captured in India, with notes on their economy, by Ezra T. Downes, Esq., who presented them to the Honourable the East India Company. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2)9:44-50.   128668