John S. LaPolla

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

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

• 1taxon names authored by John S. LaPolla

2004

• LaPolla, J.S. 2004. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3): 1–130. 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., Kjer, K.M., Schultz, T.R. & Bischoff, J.F. 2006. Phylogenetic Position of the Ant Genus Acropyga Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the Evolution of Trophophoresy. Insect Systematics and Evolution 37(3): 197–212.

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.

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.

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. 

• John LaPolla, Associate Professor. Towson University.