Colobopsis kadi

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Colobopsis kadi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Colobopsis
Species: C. kadi
Binomial name
Colobopsis kadi
(Mann, 1921)

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Specimen Labels

Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.583° to -19.15°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Fiji (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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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Worker. Specimen code casent0280257. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.

Nomenclature

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

  • kadi. Camponotus (Myrmogonia) schmeltzii var. kadi Mann, 1921: 485 (s.w.m.) FIJI IS (Vanua Levu).
    • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype male(s) (numbers not stated).
    • [Note: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 61, cite 1s, 3w, 2m syntypes (2w, 1m MCZC, 1s, 1w, 1m USNM).]
    • Type-locality: Fiji Is: Vanua Levu, Labasa, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann).
    • Type-depository: MCZC.
    • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
    • Subspecies of schmeltzi: Emery, 1925b: 144; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 106; McArthur, 2012: 188.
    • Status as species: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 61.
    • Senior synonym of trotteri: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 61.
    • Distribution: Fiji Is.
  • trotteri. Camponotus (Myrmogonia) schmeltzii subsp. trotteri Mann, 1921: 486, fig. 34 (w.) FIJI IS (Taveuni).
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Fiji Is: Taveuni I., “mountains near lake” (= Lake Tagimaucia), 1915-16 (W.M. Mann).
    • Type-depository: USNM.
    • Subspecies of schmeltzi: Emery, 1925b: 144; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 128; McArthur, 2012: 219.
    • Junior synonym of kadi: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 61.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Mann W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499.
  • Sarnat Eli M. 2009. The Ants [Hymenoptera: Formicdiae] of Fiji: Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of an Island Arc Fauna. 80-252
  • Ward, Darren F. and James K. Wetterer. 2006. Checklist of the Ants of Fiji. Fiji Arthropods III 85: 23-47.
  • Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
  • Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56