Paratopula zhengi

The sole representative of this species, a holotype worker, was collected from Mêdog, Tibet on the the south slope of Mt. Himalaya. The forager was walking on the ground in a secondary monsoon forest.

Identification
P. zhengi is close to Paratopula intermedia 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.

Castes
Known only from the worker caste.

Nomenclature

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