Volume 5, Issue 2 pp. 121-127
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TWO NEW RECORD GENERA AND THREE NEW SPECIES OF FORMICIDAE (HYMENOPTERA) FROM CHINA *

Zhenghui Xu

Zhenghui Xu

Department of Forest Protection, Southwest Forestry College, Kunming, 650224, China

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First published: 28 June 2008
Citations: 2

*This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 39500118) and the Applied and Basic Research Foundation of Yunnan Province (Project No. 95C067Q).

Abstract

Abstract Three new species of the family Formicidae were discovered in Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve of Southern Yunnan, China, i.e. Emeryopone melaina sp. nov., Myopias conicara sp. nov. and Myrmoteras cuneonodum sp. nov. Emeryopone Forel and Mymoteras Forel are new record genera in China. Myopias Roger is recorded in mainland of China for the first time.

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