Colobopsis rothneyi

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Colobopsis rothneyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Colobopsis
Species: C. rothneyi
Binomial name
Colobopsis rothneyi
(Forel, 1893)

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 22.675° to 22.675°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Singapore.
Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India (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

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Camponotus rothneyiWorker. Specimen code casent0910588. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Camponotus rothneyi taivanaeQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0910589. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

  • rothneyi. Camponotus (Colobopsis) rothneyi Forel, 1893b: 435 (s.w.q.) INDIA.
    • See also: Forel, 1913k: 132 (footnote).
    • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, et al., 2016: 350.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus krafti, makilingi.

Description

Worker

Bingham (1903): Major: Short, broad, with the head comparatively very massive and large. Head and thorax testaceous brown; abdomen black, shining, the posterior margins of the segments yellowish white. Head cylindrical, the truncated portion concave; clypeus medially vertically carinate, the front behind the margin of the truncation coarsely reticulate-punctate. Thorax broad, comparatively broader than in the other Indian species; pro-meso- and meso-metanotal sutures distinct, the thorax not emarginate at the latter. Node of pedicel transverse; abdomen massive.

Length: 4 mm


Queen

Bingham (1903): Larger relatively to the major than in other Indian species ; head more elongate than in the major; metanotum more convex.

Length: 7 mm

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128
  • Forel A. 1893. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 430-439.
  • Li Z.h. 2006. List of Chinese Insects. Volume 4. Sun Yat-sen University Press