Checklist of Chinese Ants:Formicomorph Subfamilies(Hymenoptera:Formicidae)(III)

107 known species,4 subspcies belonging to 10 genera of the subfamily Formicinae of the formicomorph subfamilies from China are listed.Among them Cataglyphis with 7 species,Formica with 44 species and 1 subspecies,Gesomyrmex with 1 species,Lasius with 19 species,Lepisiota with 8 species and 3 subspecies,Myrmoteras with 2 species,Nylanderia with 21 species,Oecophylla with 1 species,Paraparatrechina with 3 species,and Paratrechina with 1 species.Formica robusta Chang et He,2002 was renamed as Formica changhei Ran et Zhou as the former was occupied by Formica robusta Carpenter.According to the results of Lapolla et al.,removed guanyin and kongming from the genus Paratrechina to the genus Paraparatrechina,and combinated two species,i.e.Paraparatrechina guanyin(Terayama,2009),com.nov.and Paraparatrechina kongming(Terayama,2009),com.nov..All species were treated with Chinese translated names and latin names,and detailed distribution of every species is provided.Notes were offered to the species whose status changed recently,those economic values,social values,and needs to be explained.