Colobopsis longi
Colobopsis longi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Colobopsis |
Species: | C. longi |
Binomial name | |
Colobopsis longi (Forel, 1902) |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (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. |
Biology
Castes
Images from AntWeb
Syntype of Camponotus longi. Worker. Specimen code casent0910596. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- longi. Camponotus (Colobopsis) longi Forel, 1902d: 284 (s.w.) INDIA (Assam, Meghalaya).
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: India: Assam (Long), India: Assam (now Meghalaya), Garo Hills (Long), India: Assam (now Meghalaya), Cherrapunji (Nissor).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 710; Emery, 1925b: 147; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 225; Bolton, 1995b: 109; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 82; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 25.
- Distribution: India.
Description
References
- Cantone S. 2017. Winged Ants, The Male, Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the World, Behavioral ecology of mating flight (self-published).
- Forel, A. 1902d. Variétés myrmécologiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 46: 284-296 (page 284, soldier, worker described)
- Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
- Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
- 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).