Paratopula zhengi

A new species of the ant genus Paratopula Wheeler is described from Mêdog, Tibet, the south slope of Mt. Himalaya

Identification
The new species, P. zhengi sp. nov., is close to P. intermedia Sheela & Narendran, 1998, but differs in the frontal carinae fine and continuous, about as long as scapes; propodeal declivity straight, propodeal lobes short, truncated apically; anterodorsal corner of petiolar node roundly prominent; and the dorsum of alitrunk with abundant hairs.

Identification Keys including this Taxon

 * Key to Paratopula species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: Tibet. Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 *  zhengi. Paratopula zhengi Xu & Xu, 2011: 595, figs. 1-7 (w.) CHINA.