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Carebara raja
| Carebara raja | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Carebara |
| Species: | C. raja |
| Binomial name | |
| Carebara raja (Forel, 1902)
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This species has been observed in rotten woods with sufficient moisture level in pine forest areas of Himalayan Foothills of district Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Worker caste was absent (Rasheed et al., 2020).
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (type locality), Pakistan.
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
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| Syntype of Carebara raja. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0908913. 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.
- raja. Oligomyrmex raja Forel, 1902c: 216 (q.) INDIA (no state data).
- Type-material: syntype queens (number not stated).
- Type-locality: India: “Provinces of NW India” (Smythies).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in O. (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924d: 218;
- combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
- Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 690; Bingham, 1903: 154; Forel, 1906b: 89; Emery, 1924d: 218; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 157; Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 300; Bharti & Kumar, 2013b: 64 (in key); Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 35.
- Distribution: India, Myanmar.
Description
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.
- 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)
- Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249 (page 216, queen described)
- Rasheed, M.T., Bodlah, I., Fareen, A.G., Khokhar, M.S. 2020. First record of Carebara raja (Forel, 1902) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from Pakistan. Punjab University Journal of Zoology 35(1): 77-80 (doi:10.17582/journal.pujz/2020.35.1.77.80).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bharti H. 2011. List of Indian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Halteres 3: 79-87.
- 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.
- Forel A. 1906. Les fourmis de l'Himalaya. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 42: 79-94.