Talk:China

Polyrhachis bihamata

Kohout 2014 ([[Media:Kohout, R.J. 2014. A review of the subgenus Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis).pdf|Kohout, R.J. 2014. A review of the subgenus Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis) Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) with keys and description of a new species. Asian Myrmecology 6, 1–31.]]) says:

Polyrhachis bihamata has been recorded throughout Southeast Asia, from Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar to Malaysia and south to Borneo, Sumatra, possibly Java and Bali. It was also listed by Fr. Smith (1858: 58; 1862: 39; 1863: 126; 1865: 69) variously from India, the Indonesian islands of Waigeo, Bacan, Seram and Sulawesi and from New Guinea, however, I believe that many of these records are based on misidentified specimens, representing mostly P. olybria and/or P. bellicosa and P. erosispina.

Need to check identity of "P. bihamata" specimens from China, these may actually be P. olybria and/or P. bellicosa and P. erosispina. Kohout 2014 doesn't report any material of any of these taxa from China so no way to know exactly what's really going on.

Leptogenys yerburyi was reported from Yunnan, China by ZHANG & al. (2000), ZHOU & RAN (2010) and GUENARD & DUNN (2012). After identification of all the Leptogenys specimens from Yunnan, China, no specimen of the species was found, so our conclusion is that the record of L. yerburyi in Yunnan, China is a mistake. The species is excluded from China in this study (Xu, Z.-H., He, Q.-J. 2015. Taxonomic review of the ponerine ant genus Leptogenys ROGER, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a key to the Oriental species. Myrmecological News, 21, 137-161).