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Colobopsis fijiana
| Colobopsis fijiana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Colobopsis |
| Species: | C. fijiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Colobopsis fijiana (Özdikmen, 2010)
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -16.5° to -17.8°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Fiji (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
Images from AntWeb
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| Not Provided. Worker. Specimen code casent0177590. Photographer Eli M. Sarnat, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by EPEC. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- humeralis. Camponotus (Colobopsis) dentatus subsp. humeralis Wheeler, W.M. 1934e: 416 (in text), figs. 3g, 3h (w.) FIJI IS (Viti Levu).
- Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
- [Note: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 52, cite 5w syntypes MCZC.]
- Type-locality: Fiji Is: Viti Levu, Nadarivatu , 1915-16 (W.M. Mann).
- Type-depository: MCZC.
- [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus (Myrmeurynota) humeralis Emery, 1920c: 47 (Bolton, 1995b: 104).]
- Subspecies of dentata: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 42; McArthur, 2012: 16 (error).
- Replacement name: Camponotus dentatus fijianus Özdikmen, 2010a: 523.
- fijiana. Camponotus dentatus fijianus Özdikmen, 2010a: 523.
- Replacement name for Camponotus (Colobopsis) dentatus subsp. humeralis Wheeler, W.M., 1934e: 416. [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus (Myrmeurynota) humeralis Emery, 1920c: 47.]
- Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Status as species: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 52.
- Distribution: Fiji Is.
Description
References
- Sarnat, E.M. & Economo, E.P. 2012. The ants of Fiji: 384 pp. UC Publications in Entomology, University of California Press.
- 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
- Sarnat Eli M. 2009. The Ants [Hymenoptera: Formicdiae] of Fiji: Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of an Island Arc Fauna. 80-252