Southeast Asia , Indonesia (Mentawei Islands) and Thailand [1] .
The medium-sized ants (about 1 cm) are brown. It differs in the following features: workers' eyes are average and consist of about 5 ommatidia along the longest axis, large sizes for a kind (total body length of workers TL from 11.40 to 11.50 mm, head width HW from 1.85 to 1.90 mm, females are larger), the chewing margin of the mandibles with 7-8 teeth, the body is covered with fossa punctures, the head and abdomen partly the body is smooth and shiny. Antennae 12-segmented. Mandibles narrow and long, with clypeus not in contact when closed. The eyes of the females are located in the anterior lateral half of the head. The mandibles are attached in the anterolateral parts of the anterior surface of the head. Medial clypeal protrusion of a straight line. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of one segment (nodular petiolus ) with a rounded upper part. Abdomen with a strong constriction on the IV segment. Claws of hind legs simple, without teeth on their inner surface. Shins of hind legs with two spurs (one large crest-shaped and the other simple and shallow). The sting is developed. The species was first described in 1900 under the original name Trapeziopelta maligna var. punctigera Emery, 1900 , later referred to as Myopias maligna punctigera (Emery, 1900) [1] .