Kartidris sparsipila

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 * . Kartidris sparsipila Xu, 1999: 134, figs. 2, 15, 16 (w.) CHINA (Yunnan).
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 14 paratype workers.
 * Type-locality: holotype China: Yunnan Prov., Jinghong County, Mengyang Town, Sanchahe, 980 m, 1.iii.1997, no. A97-90 (Y. Lai); paratypes: 1 worker with same data, 1 worker with same data but no.A97-83 (Z. Xu), 3 workers with same data but nos A97-84, 92 (S. Dai), 1 worker Yunnan, Mengla County, Longlin Village, 1170 m., 4.iii.1997, no. A97-151 (Z. Xu), 7 workers Mengla County, Menglun Town, 690 m., 7.iii.1997, nos A97-195, 198, 206 (S. Dai), 1 worker Mengla County, Mengla, 1020 m., 12.iii.1996, no. A96-427 (Z. Xu).
 * Type-depository: SFCY.
 * Status as species: Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 44.
 * Distribution: China.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Chen Y. Q., Q. Li, Y. L. Chen, Z. X. Lu, X. Y. Zhou. 2011. Ant diversity and bio-indicators in land management of lac insect agroecosystem in Southwestern China. Biodivers. Conserv. 20: 3017-3038.
 * Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128
 * Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
 * Li Q., Y. Chen, S. Wang, Y. Zheng, Y. Zhu, and S. Wang. 2009. Diversity of ants in subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in Pu'er City, Yunnan. Biodiversity Science 17(3): 233-239.
 * Lu Z., and Y. Chen. 2016. Effects of habitat on ant functional groups: a case study of Luchun County, Yunnan Province, China. Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture 24(5): 801-810.
 * Song Y., Z. Xu, C. Li, N. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Jiang, and F. Mo. 2013. An Analysis on the Ant Fauna of the Nangun river Nature Reserve in Yunnan, China. Forest Research 26(6): 773-780.
 * Xu Z. 1999. Systematic studies on the ant genera of Carebara, Rhopalomastix and Kartidris in China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Acta Biologica Plateau Sinica 14: 129-136.
 * Xu Z. 1999. Systematic studies on the ant genera of Carebara, Rhopalomastix and Kartidris in China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Acta Biologica Plateau Sinica 14: 129-136
 * Zhang N. N., Y. Q. Chen, Z. X. Lu, W. Zhang, and K. L. Li. 2013. Species diversity, community structure difference and indicator species of leaf-litter ants in rubber plantations and secondary natural forests in Yunnan, southwestern China. Acta Entomologica Sinica 56(11): 1314-1323.