John S. LaPolla

John S. LaPolla, U.S. entomologist and myrmecologist.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252 USA

Taxon names authored

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• 4 taxon names authored by John S. LaPolla

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2004

• LaPolla, J.S. 2004. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3): 1–130. Reference page. 

2005

• LaPolla, J.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2005. A remarkable new species of Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Gabon, with a key to the afrotropical species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56(30): 601–605. BHL Reference page. 

2006

• LaPolla, J.S. & J. Sosa-Calvo. 2006. Review of the Ant Genus Rogeria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Guyana. Zootaxa 1330: 59–68.
• LaPolla, J.S., Schultz, T.R., Kjer, K.M. & Bischoff, J.F. 2006. Phylogenetic position of the ant genus Acropyga Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the evolution of trophophoresy. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37(2): 197–212. DOI: 10.1163/187631206788831083 Reference page. 

2007

• LaPolla, J.S., Suman, T., Sosa-Calvo, J., & Schultz, T.R. 2007. Leaf Litter Ant Diversity in Guyana. Biodiversity and Conservation 16(2): 491–510.
• Kjer, K.M., Swigonova, Z., LaPolla, J.S., & Broughton, R.E. 2007. Why Weight? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43: 999–1004.

2010

• LaPolla, J.S., Brady, S.G. & Shattuck, S.O. 2010. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Prenolepis genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 35(1): 118–131. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00492.x Reference page. 

2012

• LaPolla, J.S., Kallal, R.J. & Brady, S.G. 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. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00605.x Reference page. 

2013

• LaPolla, J.S., Hawkes, P.G. & Fisher, J.N. 2013. Taxonomic review of the ant genus Paratrechina, with a description of a new species from Africa. Journal of Hymenoptera research 35: 71–82. DOI: 10.3897/JHR.35.5628 Reference page. 
• LaPolla, J.S., Burwell, C., Brady, S.G. & Miller, D.R. In press. A new genus and species of scale (Hemiptera: Ortheziidae) associated with Acropyga myops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Accepted in Zootaxa.

2014

• LaPolla, J.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2014. Then there were five: a reexamination of the ant genus Paratrechina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 422: 35–48. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.422.7779 Reference page. 

2016

• Messer, S., Cover, S.P. & LaPolla, J.S. 2016. Nylanderia deceptrix sp. n., a new species of obligately socially parasitic formicine ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 552: 49–65. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.552.6475 Reference page. 
• Williams, J.L. & LaPolla, J.S. 2016. Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the ant genus Prenolepis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4200(2): 201–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.1. Reference page. 

2018

• Williams, J.L. & LaPolla, J.S. 2018. Two new Prenolepis species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Indomalaya and Australasia, with a redescription of P. dugasi from Vietnam. Zootaxa 4441(1): 171–180. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.10 Reference page. 

2019

• LaPolla, J.S. & Kallal, R.J. 2019. Nylanderia of the World Part III: Nylanderia in the West Indies. Zootaxa 4658(3): 401–451. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.1 Reference page. 

2022

• Schneider, S.A. & LaPolla, J.S. 2022. A Neotropical complex of Ripersiella species (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Rhizoecidae) collected from the nests of Acropyga ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zookeys 1123ː 1–30. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1123.90141 Reference page. 

2023

• LaPolla, J.S. & Schneider, S.A. 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 1154ː 1–16. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1154.97578 Reference page. 

Links

• John LaPolla, Associate Professor. Towson University.