Carebara panhai
Carebara panhai | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Carebara |
Species group: | pygmaea |
Species: | C. panhai |
Binomial name | |
Carebara panhai Jaitrong, Pitaktunsakul & Jantarit, 2021 |
The type series was collected from a cave at twilight zone about 3m from the entrance.
Identification
New species is most similar to Carebara pygmaea. Both species share the following characteristics of major workers:
- frons with longitudinal striation, while vertex with transverse striation
- frontal carinae with 3 pairs of erect hairs
- masticatory margin with 5 teeth (including large apical tooth)
- antenna 11-segmented with 2-segmented club
- promesonotum in profile view distinctly convex to form a dome
- promesonotal suture indistinct
- propodeal spine short, usually shorter than its base.
However, C. panhai can be easily distinguished from C. pygmaea by the following characteristics:
- in major workers, frons, vertex dorsa of petiole and post-petiole and first gastral tergite with dense erect hairs (without erect hairs in C. pygmaea)
- lateral face of pronotum largely smooth and shiny (punctate and reticulate in C. pygmaea)
- propodeum in minor workers largely smooth and shiny (entirely punctate in C. pygmaea).
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: Thailand (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
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. |
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- panhai. Carebara panhai Jaitrong, Pitaktunsakul & Jantarit, 2021: 9, figs. 1, 2 (s.w.) THAILAND.
- Type-material: holotype major worker, 4 paratype major workers, 60 paratype minor workers..
- Type-locality: holotype Thailand: Kanchanaburi Prov., Thong Pha Phum Dist., Sahakhom Nikhom Community Forest, 14.76255556°N, 98.80966667°E, 3 m. from cave entrance, 27.xi.2019 (W. Jaitrong); paratypes with same data.
- Type-depositories: TNHM (holotype); SKYC, TNHM (paratypes).
- Distribution: Thailand.
Type Material
- Holotype, major worker, Kanchanaburi Province, Thong Pha Phum District, Sahakhon Nikhom Community Forest, Thailand, 14°45′45″N 98°48′35″E / 14.76255556°N 98.80966667°E, 27 Nov 2019, W. Jaitrong, Natural History Museum of the National Science Museum; 3m from a cave entrance.
- Paratype, 4 major workers, 60 minor workers, Kanchanaburi Province, Thong Pha Phum District, Sahakhon Nikhom Community Forest, Thailand, 14°45′45″N 98°48′35″E / 14.76255556°N 98.80966667°E, 27 Nov 2019, W. Jaitrong, THNHM-I-14192, THNHM-I-19032 to THNHM-I-19034 (major workers); THNHM-I-14193, THNHM-I-19035 to THNHM-I-19093 (minor workers), SKY Collection, Natural History Museum of the National Science Museum; 3m from a cave entrance.
Description
References
- Jaitrong, W., Pitaktunsakul, P., Jantarit, S. 2021. A new species of the genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmecinae) inhabits a cave in Thailand. Far Eastern Entomologist 425, 7–20 (doi:10.25221/fee.425.2).
- Matsuura, K., Hosoishi, S., Sokh, H. 2024. A remarkable new species from the pygmaea species group of the genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from Cambodia. Far Eastern Entomologist, 496 1–9 (doi:10.25221/fee.496.1).