Vollenhovia lucimandibula

Identification
Similar to Vollenhovia emeryi, but differs form the latter by the following characters : body blackish brown, dorsum of postpetiole with coarse and dense punctures , mandibles smooth and shiny without punctures. The new species can also be distinguished easily from other known relative species of the East Asia by the characterstics mentioned above.

Distribution
Hubei Province, China.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 *  lucimandibula. Vollenhovia lucimandibula Wang, W., Zhou & Huang, 2005: 835, figs. 1, 2 (w.q.m.) CHINA.

Type Material
Holotype: worker, 1600m Mulinzi Nature Reserve, Hefeng County, Hubei Province, 26 Aug. 2004, Wang Wei leg. Paratypes: 12 workers, 2 females and 2 males, collected from the same nest of the holotype. Deposited in the Insect Collection, Hubei Institute for Nationalities , China.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128
 * Wang W., Zhou S. Y., and J. H. Huang. 2005. A new species of the genus Vollenhovia Mayr and a new record species of the genus Myrmica Latreille from China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Chinese with English summary] Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 30(4): 835-838.