Carebara pygmaea densistriata

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Carebara pygmaea densistriata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Carebara
Species: C. pygmaea
Subspecies: C. pygmaea densistriata
Trinomial name
Carebara pygmaea densistriata
(Stitz, 1925)

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Philippines (type locality).

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • densistriata. Pheidologeton (Aneleus) pygmaeus var. densistriatus Stitz, 1925: 120 (no state data).
    • Type-material: unknown (no caste or sex stated).
    • Type-locality: unknown (no locality stated but probably Philippines: unknown locality, 1913 (G. Boettcher)).
    • Type-depository: MNHU.
    • Subspecies of pygmaeus: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 154; Ettershank, 1966: 118; Bolton, 1995b: 333.
    • Distribution: not stated, probably Philippines.

Description

References

  • Fischer, G., Azorsa, F. & Fisher, B.L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438: 57–112.
  • Stitz, H. 1925c. Ameisen von den Philippinen, den malayischen und ozeanischen Inseln. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1923: 110-136 (page 120, worker described)