See text Paraparatrechina is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

They have been found in a wide range of tropical habitats from rainforests to forest clearings in sifted leaf litter, rotten logs, under stones, and from beating vegetation and fogging samples from the forest canopy.

[4] LaPolla et al. (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus to genus rank based on both morphological and molecular data.

[5] Paraparatrechina are small (typically around 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) in total length) formicine ants, which often reflect a metallic iridescence (blue, purple and pink hues have been observed) under light microscopy.

Nylanderia, the genus most likely confused with Paraparatrechina, never possesses a pair of erect setae on the propodeum.