Colobopsis ceylonica

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Colobopsis ceylonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Colobopsis
Species: C. ceylonica
Binomial name
Colobopsis ceylonica
(Emery, 1925)
Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Sri Lanka (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.

  • testacea. Colobopsis testacea Bingham, 1903: 347 (q.) SRI LANKA.
    • Type-material: holotype queen.
    • Type-locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (Thwaites).
    • Type-depository: OXUM.
    • [Misspelled as testaceae by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 227.]
    • [Junior secondary homonym of Camponotus extensus testaceus Emery, 1894f: 3.]
    • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 227 (error).
    • Replacement name: Camponotus (Colobopsis) ceylonicus Emery, 1925b: 145.
  • ceylonica. Camponotus (Colobopsis) ceylonicus Emery, 1925b: 145.
    • Replacement name for Colobopsis testacea Bingham, 1903: 347. [Junior secondary homonym of Camponotus extensus testaceus Emery, 1894f: 3.]
    • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
    • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 91; McArthur, 2012: 202; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 42.
    • Distribution: Sri Lanka.

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
  • Dias R. K. S. 2002. Current knowledge on ants of Sri Lanka. ANeT Newsletter 4: 17- 21.
  • Song Y., Z. Xu, C. Li, N. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Jiang, and F. Mo. 2013. An Analysis on the Ant Fauna of the Nangun river Nature Reserve in Yunnan, China. Forest Research 26(6): 773-780.