Colobopsis ceylonica

Colobopsis ceylonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Colobopsis
Species:	C. ceylonica
Binomial name
Colobopsis ceylonica (Emery, 1925)
Synonyms
Colobopsis testacea Bingham, 1903

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Sri Lanka (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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• testacea. Colobopsis testacea Bingham, 1903: 347 (q.) SRI LANKA.
  • Type-material: holotype queen.
  • Type-locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (Thwaites).
  • Type-depository: OXUM.
  • [Misspelled as testaceae by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 227.]
  • [Junior secondary homonym of Camponotus extensus testaceus Emery, 1894f: 3.]
  • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 227 (error).
  • Replacement name: Camponotus (Colobopsis) ceylonicus Emery, 1925b: 145.
• ceylonica. Camponotus (Colobopsis) ceylonicus Emery, 1925b: 145.
  • Replacement name for Colobopsis testacea Bingham, 1903: 347. [Junior secondary homonym of Camponotus extensus testaceus Emery, 1894f: 3.]
  • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
  • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 91; McArthur, 2012: 202; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 42.
  • Distribution: Sri Lanka.

References

• 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 347, replaced name)
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 91, catalogue)
• Emery, C. 1894f. Viaggio del dottor Alfredo Borelli nella Repubblica Argentina e nel Paraguay. VIII. Formiche. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 9(1 186: 1-4 (page 3, junior secondary homonym of testaceus)
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 145, replacement name for testacea)
• 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).
• Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
• Dias R. K. S. 2002. Current knowledge on ants of Sri Lanka. ANeT Newsletter 4: 17- 21.
• Song Y., Z. Xu, C. Li, N. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Jiang, and F. Mo. 2013. An Analysis on the Ant Fauna of the Nangun river Nature Reserve in Yunnan, China. Forest Research 26(6): 773-780.