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Colobopsis excavata
| Colobopsis excavata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Colobopsis |
| Species: | C. excavata |
| Binomial name | |
| Colobopsis excavata (Donisthorpe, 1948)
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (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. |
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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.
- excavata. Camponotus (Colobopsis) excavatus Donisthorpe, 1948e: 121, figs. a, b (q.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia).
- Type-material: 2 syntype queens.
- Type-locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, viii.1944 (E.S. Ross).
- Type-depository: CASC.
- Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1948g: 140; Donisthorpe, 1949b: 501; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 224; Bolton, 1995b: 98; McArthur, 2012: 42.
- Distribution: Indonesia (Irian Jaya).
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 98, catalogue)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1948e. A new species of Colobopsis (Hym., Formicidae) from New Guinea with a few notes on the subgenus. Entomol. Mon. Mag. 84: 121-122.(page 121, figs. a, b queen described)
- 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
- Donisthorpe H. 1948. A fourth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1: 131-143.
- Donisthorpe H. 1948. A new species of Colobopsis (Hym., Formicidae) from New Guinea with a few notes on the subgenus. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 84: 121-122.
- Donisthorpe H. 1949. A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1: 487-506.
- Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.