Carebara lignata

Carebara lignata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Carebara
Species:	C. lignata
Binomial name
Carebara lignata Westwood, 1840 Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Carebara of China
• Key to Carebara of India

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 22.82° to -7.709722°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (type locality).
Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India, Nepal.
Palaearctic Region: China.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

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.

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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Type of Carebara lignata. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0901965. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by OUM, Oxford, UK.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• lignata. Carebara lignata Westwood, 1840b: 86, pl. 2, fig. 6 (q.) INDONESIA (Java).
  • Type-material: holotype queen.
  • Type-locality: Indonesia: Java (no collector’s name) (“In Mus. Hope”).
  • Type-depository: OXUM.
  • [Misspelled as lignosa by Santschi, 1928h: 125.]
  • Emery, 1889b: 505 (w.m.); Forel, 1903a: 691 (w.m.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1954a: 142 (l.).
  • Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 178; Mayr, 1863: 402; Roger, 1863b: 32; Mayr, 1867a: 107 (redescription); Smith, F. 1871a: 334; Forel, 1886d: 247; Emery, 1887b: 466; Emery, 1889b: 505; Dalla Torre, 1893: 74; Emery, 1895k: 467; Emery, 1900d: 688; Forel, 1903a: 691; Bingham, 1903: 151; Forel, 1907e: 17; Forel, 1909d: 225; Santschi, 1924c: 100; Emery, 1924d: 220; Stitz, 1925: 120; Wheeler, W.M. 1927b: 45; Santschi, 1928h: 125; Teranishi, 1940: 67; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 155; Collingwood, 1962: 225; Ettershank, 1966: 127; Collingwood, 1970: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 133; Xu, 1999: 130 (redescription); Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 334; Ghosh, et al. 2005: 23; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 41; Bharti & Kumar, 2013b: 63 (in key); Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 34; Khachonpisitsak, et al. 2020: 82.
  • Distribution: China, India, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam.

References

• Bharti, H., Kumar, R. 2013. Six new species of Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with restructuring of world species groups and a key to Indian species. Journal of the Entomological Research Society 15(1), 47-67.
• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 151, see also)
• Emery, C. 1889c. Formiche di Birmania e del Tenasserim raccolte da Leonardo Fea (1885-87). [part]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 27[=(2)(7): 485-512 (page 505, worker, male described)
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• Forel, A. 1903a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 14: 679-715 (page 691, worker, male described)
• Khachonpisitsak, S., Yamane, S., Sriwichai, P., Jaitrong, W. 2020. An updated checklist of the ants of Thailand (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 998, 1–182 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.998.54902).
• Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
• Liu, Z., Zhong, Y., Huang, Y., Ran, H., Song, F. 2024. A new ant species of the genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) with a key to Chinese species. ZooKeys 1190, 1–37 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1190.110552).
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• Subedi, I.P., Budha, P.B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L. 2020. An updated checklist of Nepalese ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1006, 99–136 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1006.58808).
• Wang, W.Y., Soh, E.J.Y., Yong, G.W.J., Wong, M.K.L., Benoit Guénard, Economo, E.P., Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006 (doi:10.20362/am.015006).
• Westwood, J. O. 1840b. Observations on the genus Typhlopone, with descriptions of several exotic species of ants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6: 81-89 (page 86, pl. 2, fig. 6 queen described)
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1954a [1953]. The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribe Pheidologetini. Psyche (Camb.) 60: 129-147 (page 142, larva described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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