Descriptions of a new species and the gyne in the rarely collected arboreal genera Paratopula and Rotastruma (Hymenopytera: Formicidae) from Hong Kong, with a discussion on their ecology
Author
Ying Y. Luo
Author
Benoit Guénard
text
Asian Myrmecology
2016
8
1
16
journal article
10.20362/am.008016
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1985-1944
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Synoptic species list of global
Paratopula
species
Paratopula andamensis
Forel,
1903
(Andaman Is.)
– known from male only
Paratopula ankistra
Bolton,
1988
(
Brunei
)
Paratopula catocha
Bolton,
1988
(Sulawesi)
Paratopula ceylonica
Emery,
1901
(
Bangladesh
,
India
,
Myanmar
,
Pakistan
,
Sri Lanka
,
Taiwan
)
Paratopula demeta
Bolton,
1988
(
Indonesia
, E.
Malaysia
)
Paratopula longispina
Stitz,
1938
(E.
Malaysia
) – known from female only
Paratopula macta
Bolton,
1988
Malaysia
,
Philippines
,
Thailand
)
(
Brunei
,
Fig. 6.
Locations specimens for
P. bauhinia
sp. n.
were collected for A) the holotype and B) the two paratypes. Arrows indicates exact location of
P. bauhinia
sp. n.
collection.
Paratopula oculata
Smith,
1857
(Borneo, W.
Malaysia
,
Singapore
) – known from male and female only
Paratopula sumatrensis
Forel
1913
(
Philippines
, Sumatra) - known from female only
Paratopula intermedia
1998
(
India
)
Sheela
&
Narendran,
Paratopula zhengi
Xu & Xu,
2011
(Xizang,
China
)
Paratopula bauhinia
sp. nov.
(
Hong Kong
)
Updated key to global
Paratopula
species