Paratopula bauhinia

This species is known only from the type localities, both located in Lung Fu Shan Country Park, on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The holotype specimen was found foraging in sparse leaf litter on a man-made concrete structure raised at about 1.8m above ground level, and located under the tree species Syzygium jambos Alston and Litsea monopetala Persoon. The surrounding habitat is the edge of a young secondary forest close to a well-used hiking trail in Lung Fu Shan Country Park, Hong Kong. It was found at approximately 20:30 h. Both paratype specimens were found approximately 275m further up the trail, on a railing adjacent to the concrete hiking trail. This part of the trail is surrounded by a monoculture plantation of the tree Lophostemon confertus Wilson & Waterh. They were both found at approximately 21:00h at three months interval.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 *  bauhinia. Paratopula bauhinia Luo & Guénard, 2016: 4, figs. 1-7 (w.) CHINA.

Type Material


Paratypes. Two workers collected from HONG KONG, Lung Fu Shan Country Park. One worker found at N 22.278592 E 114.13817 (approximately 275m away from where the holotype was found), elevation 272m, collected by hand at approximately 21:00 h, 06.i.2016 (Gordon YONG), label “ANTWEB1009013” deposited in Insect Biodiversity and Biogeography Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. The second was collected near the location of the other paratype, at N 22.279139 E114.136755, elevation 273m, hand collected at approximately 21:00 h, 21.iv.2016 (Ying Y. LUO), label “ANTWEB1009014” deposited at Insect Biodiversity and Biogeography Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong.