Carebara bicarinata

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Carebara bicarinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Carebara
Species: C. bicarinata
Binomial name
Carebara bicarinata
Santschi, 1912

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Specimen Labels

Identification

A member of the Carebara lignata species complex.

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: French Guiana, Guyana (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.

  • bicarinata. Carebara bicarinata Santschi, 1912a: 139, figs. 1, 2 (q.m.) FRENCH GUIANA.
    • Type-material: 5 syntype queens, 15 syntype males.
    • Type-locality: French Guiana: (no further data) (Le Moult).
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922e: 1; Santschi, 1923d: 65; Emery, 1924d: 221; Borgmeier, 1927c: 101; Ettershank, 1966: 127; Kempf, 1972a: 74; Bolton, 1995b: 133; Fernández, 2004a: 213 (redescription).
    • Distribution: French Guiana.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Fernández (2004) - Besides the original description, Wheeler (1922c) provided some notes of the female and male of this species, recorded from French Guiana and Brazil. He pointed out that “the males were found to be variable and Santschi was not sure that they belonged to the same species as the female”. This recurring problem has arisen from the tendency of earlier myrmecologists to describe any sexual form alone, without reference to the associated workers. The result has been species names based on only females, males or both; these will continue to confound the species lists until nest series taken in the field make it possible to match up definitively the sexual forms with their respective workers.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Ettershank G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171.
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • Franco W., N. Ladino, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Dejean, J. Orivel, M. Fichaux, S. Groc, M. Leponce, and R. M. Feitosa. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Santschi F. 1912. Un Carebara américain (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1912: 139-141.
  • Ulyssea M.A., C. E. Cereto, F. B. Rosumek, R. R. Silva, and B. C. Lopes. 2011. Updated list of ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) recorded in Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil, with a discussion of research advances and priorities. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 55(4): 603-–611.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1922. Neotropical ants of the genera Carebara, Tranopelta and Tranopeltoides, new genus. American Museum Novitates 48: 1-14.