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LaPolla, John S.

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Given Name(s): John S.
Family Name: LaPolla
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Publications (21)       Publishing history histogram

  1. Engel, Michael S., Phillip Barden, Vincent Perrichot, John S. LaPolla & Torsten Wappler. 2022 Case 3858 – FORMICIINAE Lutz, 1986 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): proposed conservation by replacement of type species for Formicium Westwood, 1854 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 79.
  2. Kallal, Robert J. & John S. LaPolla. 2012 Erratum:KALLAL, ROBERT J. & LAPOLLA, JOHN S. (2012) Monograph of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the World, Part II: Nylanderia in the Nearctic. Zootaxa, 3508, 1–64. Zootaxa 3548(1): 88.
  3. Kallal, Robert J. & John S. LaPolla. 2012 Monograph of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the World, Part II: Nylanderia in the Nearctic Zootaxa 3508(1): 1–64.
  4. LaPolla, John S. 2005 Ancient Trophophoresy: A Fossil Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Dominican Amber Transactions of the American Entomological Society.
  5. LaPolla, John S. 2009 Taxonomic revision of the Southeast Asian ant genus Euprenolepis Zootaxa 2046: 1-25.
  6. LaPolla, John S. 2023 Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the early Oligocene Canyon Ferry Reservoir deposit Palaeoentomology 6(4): 385–397.
  7. LaPolla, John S. & Brian L. Fisher. 2014 Then there were five: a reexamination of the ant genus Paratrechina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) ZooKeys 422: 35-48.
  8. LaPolla, John S. & Brian L. Fisher. 2014 Two new Paraparatrechina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) species from the Seychelles, with notes on the hypogaeic weissi species-group ZooKeys 414: 139-155.
  9. LaPolla, John S. & Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo. 2006 Review of the ant genus Rogeria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Guyana. Zootaxa 1330: 59-68.
  10. LaPolla, John S. & Robert J. Kallal. 2019 Nylanderia of the World Part III: Nylanderia in the West Indies Zootaxa 4658(3): 401–451.
  11. LaPolla, John S. & Scott A. Schneider. 2023 Trophobiosis between a new species of Acropyga (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and new Neochavesia (Hemiptera, Xenococcidae) from Peru, and establishment of the Acropyga smithii species-group ZooKeys 1154: 1-16.
  12. LaPolla, John S., Peter G. Hawkes & Jonathan N. Fisher. 2013 Taxonomic review of the ant genus Paratrechina, with a description of a new species from Africa Journal of Hymenoptera Research 35: 71-82.
  13. LaPolla, John S., Robert J. Kallal & Seán G. Brady. 2012 A new ant genus from the Greater Antilles and Central America, Zatania (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), exemplifies the utility of male and molecular character systems Systematic Entomology 37(1): 200-214.
  14. Messer, Steven J., Stefan P. Cover & John S. LaPolla. 2016 Nylanderia deceptrix sp. n., a new species of obligately socially parasitic formicine ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) ZooKeys 552: 49-65.
  15. Schneider, Scott A. & John S. LaPolla. 2020 Trophobiosis between a new species of Williamsrhizoecus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Rhizoecidae) and Acropyga silvestrii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Tanzania Zootaxa 4853(2): 283–291.
  16. Schneider, Scott A. & John S. LaPolla. 2022 A Neotropical complex of Ripersiella species (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Rhizoecidae) collected from the nests of Acropyga ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) ZooKeys 1123: 1-30.
  17. Schneider, Scott A. & John S. LaPolla. 2024 New species of Coccidella Hambleton and Rhizoecus Kunckel d’Herculais from South America (Hemiptera: Rhizoecidae) Zootaxa 5555(1): 125-133.
  18. Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Ted R. Schultz & John S. LaPolla. 2010 A review of the dacetine ants of Guyana (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19(1): 12-43.
  19. Williams, Jason L. & John S. LaPolla. 2016 Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the ant genus Prenolepis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Zootaxa 4200(2): 201–258.
  20. Williams, Jason L. & John S. LaPolla. 2018 Two new Prenolepis species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Indomalaya and Australasia, with a redescription of P. dugasi from Vietnam Zootaxa 4441(1): 171–180.
  21. Williams, Jason L., John F. Williams, John S. LaPolla & Andrea Lucky. 2025 Nylanderia of the World, Part IV: Taxonomic contributions to the American Clade I of New World Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Zootaxa 5569(3): 549-593.