Three species of the ant genus Echinopla are recognized in China:E.cherapunjiensis,E.striata and E.lateropilosa.The last one is recorded for the first time in China.Morphological descriptions,measurements,distribution and high-resolution color pictures of the worker caste of each species are provided.A key to the known Chinese species based on worker caste is presented.
The taxonomy of Pheidole Westwood,1841 from Fujian,China is discussed.A new species,Pheidole flavigaster sp.nov.,is described.A key to the species of Pheidole based on major worker is provided.This new species is small in size,body color is brown and gaster is yellow.Pheidole flavigaster sp.nov.is similar to Pheidole schoedli Eguchi,Hashimoto&Malsch,2006 from Indonesia,but the propodeal spine is not upward and the hypostoma inner and median teeth are not distinct,making it obvious to distinguish them.The holotype and paratypes are both deposited at the Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology,Kunming Institute of Zoology(KIZ),Chinese Academy of Sciences,Kunming,Yunnan,China.
