Tibet

Tibet
Location
Region	Asia
Subregion	Eastern Asia
BioRegion	Palaearctic Region
Diversity
Subfamilies	5
Genera	12
Endemic Genera	0
% Endemic Genera	0.0%
Species/Subspecies	18
Endemic Species	2
% Endemic Species	11.1%
Introduced Species	0

Aphaenogaster

• Aphaenogaster tibetana Donisthorpe, 1929

Anochetus

• Anochetus subcoecus Forel, 1912

Cardiocondyla

• Cardiocondyla tibetana Seifert, 2003

Cerapachys

• Cerapachys xizangensis Tang & Li, 1982

Formica

• Formica forsslundi Lohmander, 1949
• Formica sentschuensis Ruzsky, 1915

Lasius

• Lasius obscuratus Stitz, 1930
• Lasius przewalskii Ruzsky, 1915
• Lasius schaeferi Seifert, 1992

Myrmica

• Myrmica bactriana Ruzsky, 1915
• Myrmica gebaueri Seifert, Schultz, Ritz & Ritz, 2018
• Myrmica kozlovi Ruzsky, 1915
• Myrmica tibetana Mayr, 1889

Paratopula

• Paratopula zhengi Xu & Xu, 2011

Polyrhachis

• Polyrhachis lama Kohout, 1994

Protanilla

• Protanilla tibeta Xu, 2012

Stenamma

• Stenamma yaluzangbum

Vombisidris

• Vombisidris tibeta Xu & Yu, 2012

Uncertain species

The following species was described from Tibet but its true identity is currently unknown.

• Myrmica khamensis Ruzsky, 1915

References

• Dlussky, G.M. 1965a. Ants of the genus Formica L. of Mongolia and northeast Tibet. Annales Zoologici 23: 15-43. [20.v.1965.]
• Eidmann, H. 1941. Zur Ökologie und Zoogeographie der Ameisenfauna von Westchina und Tibet. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der 2. Brooke Dolan-Expedition, 1934-1935. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie die Tiere 38: 1-43. [18.xi.1941.]
• Forel, A. 1908d. Formiciden (p. 105). In Wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse der Expedition Filchner nach China und Tibet, 1903-05 10. Zoologische Sammlungen 1: 244 pp. Berlin. 31).i.1908.]
• Kohout, R.J. 1994b. Polyrhachis lama, a new ant from the Tibetan plateau. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35: 137-138. [1.vi.1994.]
• Mayr, G. 1889. Insecta in itinare Cl. Przewalski in Asia centrali novissime lecta. 17. Formiciden aus Tibet. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 24: 278-280. [12.viii.1889; 24.viii.1889 by Gregorian calender.]
• Ruzsky, M. 1915a. O murav'yakh Tibeti i yuzhnoi Gobi. Po materialam sobrannym ekspeditsiei polkovnika P.K. Kozlova. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 20: 418-444. [(31).x.1915.] (Note. This paper was intended for publication in volume 19 (1914), page 480 onwards, of this journal, but did not appear there.)
• Tang, C. & Li, S. 1982. Hymenoptera: Formicidae (pp. 371-374). In Xizang Kunchong (Tibetan Insects) 2: 508 pp. Beijing. [(30).iv.1982.]