Paratopula longispina

This species is known only from queens.

Identification Keys including this Taxon

 * Key to Paratopula species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia.

Nomenclature

 * . Atopula longispina Stitz, 1938: 103, fig. 4 (q.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sabah).
 * Type-material: holotype queen.
 * Type-locality: Malaysia: North Borneo (= Sabah) (v. Kühlwein).
 * Type-depository: MNHU.
 * Combination in Paratopula: Bolton, 1976: 363.
 * Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 115; Bolton, 1988b: 139 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 312; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 48.
 * Distribution: Malaysia (Sabah).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Bolton B. 1988. A review of Paratopula Wheeler, a forgotten genus of myrmicine ants (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 124: 125-143
 * Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
 * Sheela S., 2008. First record of the rare ant Paratopula ceylonica Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Uttar Pradesh, India with a note to the genus. J. Exp. Zool. India 11(2): 423-425.
 * Stitz H. 1938. Neue Ameisen aus dem indo-malayischen Gebiet. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1938: 99-122.