The Insect Biogeography and Biodiversity research group led by Dr Benoit Guénard at the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has recently described and named a new species of ant from Hong Kong, Paratopula bauhinia, or the rare “Golden Tree Ant” in Asian Myrmecology, a peer-reviewed, yearly journal dedicated to the study of Asian ants.
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Ms Ying Luo (left) and Dr Benoit Guénard (right) shows a picture of Golden Tree Ant at the Lung Fu Shan Country Park where the ant was first discovered on Aug 1, 2016. (Parker Zheng/China Daily)
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