Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species

Twenty-three valid species of the formicine ant genus Echinopla Smith are recorded in the world. Body surface sculptures of the genus are summarized into four types: shagreened, longitudinally striate, bluntly spined with background retirugose and cribrate with interstice retirugose. The twenty-thre...

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Main Author:	Farah Nadhirah
Other Authors:	Xu, Zhenghui
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Published:	Asian Myrmecology, International Network for the Study of Asian Ants, Penerbit UMS 2015
Subjects:	Biological sciences
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spelling	oai:www.myjurnal.my:1023182018-09-20T00:00:00Z Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species Farah Nadhirah Biological sciences Twenty-three valid species of the formicine ant genus Echinopla Smith are recorded in the world. Body surface sculptures of the genus are summarized into four types: shagreened, longitudinally striate, bluntly spined with background retirugose and cribrate with interstice retirugose. The twenty-three species are divided into five species-groups based on the body surface sculpture types and other important characters. A key to known species of the genus is provided based on worker and queen castes. E. striata Smith, 1857 is recorded in China for the first time, E. cherapunjiensis Bharti & Gul, 2012 is recorded in Tibet and Guangxi regions of China, and this is the northernmost record of the genus in the world. Asian Myrmecology, International Network for the Study of Asian Ants, Penerbit UMS Xu, Zhenghui 2015-00-00 Journal application/pdf 102318 www.myjurnal.my/filebank/published_article/517584.pdf www.myjurnal.my/public/article-view.php?id=102318
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spellingShingle	Biological sciences Farah Nadhirah Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species
description	Twenty-three valid species of the formicine ant genus Echinopla Smith are recorded in the world. Body surface sculptures of the genus are summarized into four types: shagreened, longitudinally striate, bluntly spined with background retirugose and cribrate with interstice retirugose. The twenty-three species are divided into five species-groups based on the body surface sculpture types and other important characters. A key to known species of the genus is provided based on worker and queen castes. E. striata Smith, 1857 is recorded in China for the first time, E. cherapunjiensis Bharti & Gul, 2012 is recorded in Tibet and Guangxi regions of China, and this is the northernmost record of the genus in the world.
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title	Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species
title_short	Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species
title_full	Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species
title_fullStr	Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species
title_full_unstemmed	Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species
title_sort	species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus echinopla smith (hymenoptera: formicidae) with reports of chinese species
publisher	Asian Myrmecology, International Network for the Study of Asian Ants, Penerbit UMS
publishDate	2015
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Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species

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