China

China
Location
Region	Asia
Subregion	Eastern Asia
BioRegion	Palaearctic Region
Diversity
Subfamilies	10
Genera	117
Endemic Genera	1
% Endemic Genera	0.9%
Species/Subspecies	1019
Endemic Species	368
% Endemic Species	36.1%
Introduced Species	0

1 Acanthomyrmex
2 Acropyga
3 Aenictus
4 Anillomyrma
5 Anochetus
6 Anoplolepis
7 Aphaenogaster
8 Bothriomyrmex
9 Bothroponera
10 Brachymyrmex
11 Brachyponera
12 Buniapone
13 Calomyrmex
14 Calyptomyrmex
15 Camponotus
16 Cardiocondyla
17 Carebara
18 Cataglyphis
19 Cataulacus
20 Centromyrmex
21 Cerapachys
22 Chronoxenus
23 Chrysapace
24 Colobopsis
25 Crematogaster
26 Cryptopone
27 Dacatria
28 Diacamma
29 Dilobocondyla
30 Discothyrea
31 Dolichoderus
32 Dorylus
33 Echinopla
34 Ectomomyrmex
35 Emeryopone
36 Erromyrma
37 Euponera
38 Formica
39 Gaoligongidris
40 Gauromyrmex
41 Gesomyrmex
42 Gnamptogenys
43 Harpagoxenus
44 Hypoponera
45 Iridomyrmex
46 Kartidris
47 Lasius
48 Lepisiota
49 Leptanilla
50 Leptogenys
51 Leptothorax
52 Liometopum
53 Lioponera
54 Lophomyrmex
55 Lordomyrma
56 Mayriella
57 Meranoplus
58 Mesoponera
59 Messor
60 Monomorium
61 Myopias
62 Myopopone
63 Myrmecina
64 Myrmica
65 Myrmicaria
66 Myrmoteras
67 Mystrium
68 Nylanderia
69 Ochetellus
70 Odontomachus
71 Oecophylla
72 Opamyrma
73 Ooceraea
74 Pachycondyla
75 Paraparatrechina
76 Parasyscia
77 Paratopula
78 Paratrechina
79 Perissomyrmex
80 Parvaponera
81 Pheidole
82 Philidris
83 Plagiolepis
84 Platythyrea
85 Polyergus
86 Polyrhachis
87 Ponera
88 Prenolepis
89 Pristomyrmex
90 Probolomyrmex
91 Proceratium
92 Proformica
93 Protanilla
94 Pseudolasius
95 Pseudoneoponera
96 Recurvidris
97 Rhopalomastix
98 Rossomyrmex
99 Rotastruma
100 Simopone
101 Solenopsis
102 Stenamma
103 Stigmatomma
104 Strongylognathus
105 Strumigenys
106 Syscia
107 Tapinoma
108 Technomyrmex
109 Temnothorax
110 Tetramorium
111 Tetraponera
112 Trichomyrmex
113 Yunodorylus
114 Vollenhovia
115 Vombisidris
116 REFERENCES

The following list of the ants of China, based on published occurrence data, is from Guenard and Dunn (2012). A summary of the list from this publication states: "Through literature review, we have added 708 species and subspecies to the list of the ants of China since the last bibliographic revision of Chinese species (Wu & Wang 1995). Despite the large number of named species (939) already recorded from China, our results suggest that many more species, perhaps twice as many, remain to be found. When comparing the geographically similar China and United States, Chinese ant diversity is anomalously low compared to other plant and animal lineages. We suggest that this pattern reflects the poor knowledge of Chinese ants and that many ant species are yet to be recorded or discovered in China. The taxonomy of Chinese ants is still unsatisfactory for many genera and complete revision is necessary in a number of cases in order to clarify the status of problematic species and subspecies, and discard possible synonyms, while separating cryptic species now clustered into species complexes."

Additional species should be added to this list as called for: from additional publication records being found, with the addition of new species described from China or through specimen based occurrence records.

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