Carebara affinis minor

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Carebara affinis minor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Carebara
Species: C. affinis
Subspecies: C. affinis minor
Trinomial name
Carebara affinis minor
(Emery, 1900)

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • minor. Pheidologeton affinis var. minor Emery, 1900c: 326 (s.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
    • Type-material: holotype major worker.
    • Type-locality: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Tamara I. (L. Biró).
    • Type-depository: MSNG or HNHM.
    • Combination in Carebara: Fischer, et al. 2014: 71.
    • Subspecies of affinis: Emery, 1911c: 249; Viehmeyer, 1914c: 528; Emery, 1924d: 212; Santschi, 1932b: 14; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 158; Ettershank, 1966: 119; Bolton, 1995b: 333.
    • Distribution: Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.

Description

References

  • Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetr. Füz. 23: 310-338 (page 326, soldier, queen described)
  • Fischer, G., Azorsa, F. & Fisher, B.L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438: 57–112.