Colobopsis levuana

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

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.583° to -19.11833°.

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.

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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Not Provided. Worker. Specimen code casent0180271. Photographer Evan P. Economo, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by EMSC.

Worker. Specimen code casent0280254. Photographer Shannon Hartman, 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.

• levuana. Camponotus (Myrmogonia) laminatus var. levuanus Mann, 1921: 479 (w.) FIJI IS (Vanua Levu).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a small series”).
  • [Note: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 59, cite 4w, 3m syntypes USNM (males are not mentioned in the original description).]
  • Type-locality: Fiji Is: Vanua Levu, Wainunu, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann).
  • Type-depository: USNM (perhaps also MCZC).
  • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
  • Subspecies of laminata: Emery, 1925b: 144; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 108; McArthur, 2012: 28.
  • Status as species: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 59.
  • Distribution: Fiji Is.

References

• Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499 (page 479, worker 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.