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Paratopula

Description

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,

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

Notes

Published as part of Ying Y. Luo & Benoit Guénard, 2016, 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, pp. 1-16 in Asian Myrmecology 8 on pages 8-10, DOI: 10.20362/am.008016, http://zenodo.org/record/270012

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Paratopula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Bolton B., 1988. A review of Paratopula Wheeler, a forgotten genus of Myrmicine ants (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 125 - 143.
  • Emery, C., 1901. Ameisen gesammelt in Ceylon con Dr. W. Horn, 1899, Dt. Ent. Z., 113 - 122.
  • Xu Z. H., & Xu G. L., 2011. A new species of the genus Paratopula Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zootaxonomica, 36 (3): 595 - 597.