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Carebara alluaudi
| Carebara alluaudi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Carebara |
| Species: | C. alluaudi |
| Binomial name | |
| Carebara alluaudi (Santschi, 1913)
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Kenya (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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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 Carebara alluaudi. Worker. Specimen code casent0904667. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- alluaudi. Oligomyrmex alluaudi Santschi, 1913e: 459, 460 (diagnosis in key) (s.w.) KENYA.
- Type-material: 2 syntype major workers, 9 syntype minor workers.
- Type-localities: 2 major workers, 5 minor workers Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Shimoni, st. no. 9, xi.1911 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel) (invalid restriction of type-locality by Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 881; no lectotype designated), 4 minor workers Kenya: Kijabé, Kikuyu Escarpment, 2100 m., st. no. 27. xii.1911 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel).
- [Note: type-locality data from Santschi, 1914b: 81; Santschi, 1913e: 459, mistakenly gives “Kilimanjaro”;]
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- [Also described as new by Santschi, 1914b: 81 (s.w. descriptions).]
- Combination in O. (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924d: 217;
- combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
- Status as species: Santschi, 1914b: 81; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 881; Emery, 1924d: 217; Weber, 1950a: 3; Ettershank, 1966: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 298; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 208.
- Senior synonym of kenyensis (unnecessary replacement name): Bolton, 1995b: 298.
- Distribution: Kenya.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus cataractae.
- kenyensis. Oligomyrmex kenyensis Ettershank, 1966: 123.
- Unnecessary replacement name for alluaudi Santschi, 1914b: 81; hence junior synonym of alluaudi: Bolton, 1995b: 299.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 298, Senior synonym of kenyensis (unnecessary replacement name))
- Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 235, Combination in Carebara)
- Santschi, F. 1913e. Clé dichotomique des Oligomyrmex africains (Hym. Formicidae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1913: 459-460 (page 459, (diagnosis in key) soldier, worker described)
- Weber, N. A. 1950a. The African species of the genus Oligomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1442: 1-19 (page 3, see also)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Braet Y., and B. Taylor. 2008. Mission entomologique au Parc National de Pongara (Gabon). Bilan des Formicidae (Hymenoptera) recoltes. Bulletin S. R. B. E./K.B.V.E. 144: 157-169.
- Ettershank G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171.
- Ross S. R. P. J., F. Hita Garcia, G. Fischer, and M. K. Peters. 2018. Selective logging intensity in an East African rain forest predicts reductions in ant diversity. Biotropica 1-11.
- Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.
- Weber N. A. 1950. The African species of the genus Oligomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1442: 1-19.
- Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004