Kartidris galos

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 * . Kartidris galos Bolton, 1991: 13, fig. 20 (w.) CHINA (Hainan I.).
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: China: Hainan I., Tien Fong Mts, v.1983 (Z. Bouček).
 * Type-depository: BMNH.
 * Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 219; Xu, 1999: 134 (in key); Zhou, 2001b: 120; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 44.
 * Distribution: China.

Worker
Holotype. TL 4.4, HL 0.97, HW 0.85, CI 88, SL 0.90, SI 106, PW 0.60, AL 1.28. Maximum diameter of eye 0.22 (0.26 x HW). Answering the description given for Kartidris nyos but contrasting as follows.

(i) Cephalic dorsum everywhere finely and densely reticulate-granular, the surface opaque.

(ii) Pronotal dorsum with superficial reticular patterning, less strongly sculptured than head or propodeal dorsum.

(iii) Sides of pronotum glossy but superficially reticulate; mesopleuron and side of propodeum with sculpture of almost equal intensity.

(iv) First gastral tergite with fine superficial reticulation between hair-pits.

(v) Colour uniform dark brown.

Type Material
Holotype worker, China: Hainan I., Tien Fong Mts, v.1983 (Z. Boucek).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
 * Staab M., A. Schuldt, T. Assmann, H. Bruelheide, and A.M. Klein. 2014. Ant community structure during forest succession in a subtropical forest in South-East China. Acta Oecologia 61: 32-40.
 * Zhou S.-Y. 2001. Ants of Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University Press, Guilin, China, Guilin, China. 255 pp.
 * Zhou Shanyi, and Zheng Zhemin. 1996. A discovery of Kartidris Galos Bolton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Guangxi province. Journal of Guangxi Normal University 3.