Carebara alpha

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Carebara alpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Carebara
Species: C. alpha
Binomial name
Carebara alpha
(Forel, 1905)

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Specimen Labels

Heterick & Kitching (2022) collected this species in a pitfall trap within a lowland dipterocarp forest in Brunei.

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia (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.

  • alpha. Oligomyrmex alpha Forel, 1905c: 21 (w.) INDONESIA (Java).
    • Type-material: holotype (?) minor worker.
    • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
    • Type-locality: Indonesia: Java, Tjompea, 11.iii.1904 (K. Kraepelin).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • [Note: Forel, 1905c: 22, was undecided whether his taxa O. alpha and O. beta were separate species, or the minor and major workers of a single species.]
    • Combination in O. (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924d: 217;
    • combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
    • Status as species: Forel, 1911b: 201; Emery, 1924d: 217; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 156; Ettershank, 1966: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 298.
    • Distribution: Indonesia (Java).

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
  • Ettershank G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171.