Carebara lamellifrons

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Carebara lamellifrons
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Carebara
Species: C. lamellifrons
Binomial name
Carebara lamellifrons
(Forel, 1902)

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Specimen Labels


Photo Gallery

  • Winged alate of Carebara lamellifrons. Photo by Paul Antony.

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: 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 Carebara lamellifronsQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0908890. Photographer Z. Lieberman, 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.

  • lamellifrons. Pheidologeton lamellifrons Forel, 1902c: 219 (q.) INDIA (Karnataka).
    • Type-material: holotype (?) queen.
    • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
    • Type-locality: India: Belgaum (Wroughton).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Combination in P. (Lecanomyrma): Forel, 1913k: 58;
    • combination in Aneleus (Lecanomyrma): Emery, 1924d: 215;
    • combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 123;
    • combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
    • Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 691; Bingham, 1903: 166; Emery, 1924d: 215; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 155; Ettershank, 1966: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 299; Tiwari, 1999: 58; Bharti & Kumar, 2013b: 63 (in key); Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 34.
    • Distribution: India.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Forel A. 1902. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249.
  • Forel A. 1903. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 14: 679-715.