Echinopla pallipes

Specimens have been collected in dipterocarp forest and lower montane mixed dipterocarp forest.

Identification
Zettel and Laciny (2015) - Echinopla pallipes is similar to Echinopla melanarctos, but smaller (TL ca. 6 mm), and has pale legs, lower tubercles on head and mesosoma and strongly reduced tubercles on gaster tergite 1 (only anteriorly present). It differs from Echinopla tritschleri and Echinopla cherapunjiensis by the posterior position of the eyes, and from Echinopla circulus by the sculpture of the gaster tergite 1. See also notes for E. circulus.

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

Nomenclature

 *  pallipes. Echinopla pallipes Smith, F. 1857a: 80 (w.) BORNEO. Forel, 1913k: 133 (q.). [Misspelled as pallidipes by Dalla Torre, 1893: 272; Emery, 1925b: 211.]

Holotype worker in. Labelled “SAR. 13” and with a Donisthorpe type-label.