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Colobopsis cotesii
| Colobopsis cotesii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Colobopsis |
| Species: | C. cotesii |
| Binomial name | |
| Colobopsis cotesii (Forel, 1893)
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 22.88333333° to 22.88333333°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: China.
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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- cotesii. Camponotus (Colobopsis) cotesii Forel, 1893b: 438 (w.) INDIA (Uttarakhand).
- Type-material: holotype minor worker.
- Type-locality: India: Mussoori Hills (G.A.J. Rothney).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- [Misspelled as cottesi by Emery, 1925b: 147.]
- Bingham, 1903: 345 (s.).
- Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Status as species: Emery, 1896d: 374 (in list); Bingham, 1903: 345; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 94; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 351; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 61; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 28; McArthur, 2012: 38; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 24.
- Distribution: China, India.
Description
Major
Bingham (1903): Black, shining, with very sparse short erect black pubescence; the truncated front of the head, including the base of the clypeus, the scape and flagellum of the antennae, and the front of the mandibles reddish chestnut, the legs dark brownish chestnut; two spots at the base of the abdomen, a line along the base of the 2nd abdominal segment and two lateral spots at the base of the 3rd segment testaceous yellow. Head very massive anteriorly, above coarsely rugose. Thorax comparatively broad, widely emarginate at the meso-metanotal suture; metanotum raised, rounded, somewhat conical; legs stout, short, femora and tibiae especially of the anterior legs broad, strongly compressed. Node of pedicel transverse, notched above ; abdomen massive, broadly oval.
Length: 8 mm
Minor
Bingham (1903): Similar to major, smaller and slighter; head obtuse anteriorly; metanotum truncate posteriorly. Node of pedicel longer than broad, very convex in front, flat posteriorly.
Length: 4.5 - 6 mm
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 345, soldier described)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)
- Forel, A. 1893c. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 430-439 (page 438, worker described)
- 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
- Chen Y. Q., Q. Li, Y. L. Chen, Z. X. Lu, X. Y. Zhou. 2011. Ant diversity and bio-indicators in land management of lac insect agroecosystem in Southwestern China. Biodivers. Conserv. 20: 3017-3038.