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Colobopsis kadi
| Colobopsis kadi | |
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| 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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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -16.583° to -19.15°.
| 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
Check data from AntWeb
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
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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
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 106, catalogue)
- Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499 (page 485, soldier, worker, male described)
- 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
- 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