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Colobopsis vitrea carinata
| Colobopsis vitrea carinata | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Colobopsis |
| Species: | C. vitrea |
| Subspecies: | C. vitrea carinata |
| Trinomial name | |
| Colobopsis vitrea carinata (Stitz, 1938) | |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (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. |
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- carinata. Camponotus (Colobopsis) vitreus r. carinata Stitz, 1938: 116 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
- Type-material: 2 syntype queens.
- Type-locality: Papua New Guinea (“German New Guinea”): Aprilfluss, (Kaiserin-Augustafluss Expd.) (Bürgers).
- Type-depository: MNHU.
- [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Colobopsis carinata Mayr, 1870b: 943.]
- [Camponotus vitreus var. neocarinata Baroni Urbani, 1971b: 361. Unavailable replacement name (variety proposed after 1960) for carinata Stitz (Bolton, 1995b: 91.)]
- Subspecies of vitrea: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 228; Bolton, 1995b: 91; McArthur, 2012: 86.
- Distribution: Papua New Guinea.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 91, catalogue)
- Stitz, H. 1938. Neue Ameisen aus dem indo-malayischen Gebiet. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1938: 99-122 (page 116, queen described [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Formica carinata Brulle. The proposed replacement name, neocarinata Baroni Urbani, 1971:361, is unavailable.])
- Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).