Colobopsis polynesica
Colobopsis polynesica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Colobopsis |
Species: | C. polynesica |
Binomial name | |
Colobopsis polynesica (Emery, 1896) | |
Synonyms | |
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -16.5° to -19.0775°.
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
Images from AntWeb
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Not Provided. Worker. Specimen code casent0187250. Photographer Evan P. Economo, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by EMSC. |
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Worker. Specimen code casent0280251. Photographer Shannon Hartman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection. |
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Worker. Specimen code casent0280252. Photographer Shannon Hartman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection. |
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Syntype of Camponotus maudella. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910585. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland. |
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Syntype of Camponotus maudella. Worker. Specimen code casent0910586. 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.
- carinata. Colobopsis carinata Mayr, 1870b: 943 (s.) FIJI IS (Ovalau).
- Type-material: holotype (?) major worker.
- [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
- Type-locality: Fiji Is: Ovalau I. (no collector’s name).
- Type-depository: NHMW.
- [Junior secondary homonym of Formica carinata Brullé, 1840: 84.]
- Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Emery, 1889b: 517;
- combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1914a: 271;
- combination in C. (Myrmotemnus): Emery, 1920b: 258.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1876: 67; Dalla Torre, 1893: 223.
- Replacement name: Camponotus polynesicus Emery, 1896d: 374.
- polynesica. Camponotus polynesicus Emery, 1896d: 374.
- Replacement name for Colobopsis carinata Mayr, 1870b: 943. [Junior secondary homonym of Formica carinata Brullé, 1840: 84.]
- Combination in C. (Colobopsis): Emery, 1925b: 146 (as mayriella);
- combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Status as species: Mann, 1921: 494 (redescription, as mayriella); Bolton, 1995b: 118; McArthur, 2012: 176; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48.
- Senior synonym of janussus: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48.
- Senior synonym of maudella: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48.
- Senior synonym of mayriella (unnecessary (second) replacement name for carinata Mayr): Bolton, 1995b: 118.
- Senior synonym of seemanni: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48.
- Distribution: Fiji Is.
- janus. Camponotus (Colobopsis) janus Mann, 1921: 498 (s.w.) FIJI IS (Kadavu).
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
- [Note: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48, cite 3s, 6w syntypes (1s, 2w MCZC, 2s, 4w USNM).]
- Type-locality: Fiji Is: Kadavu I., Buke Levu, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann).
- Type-depositories: MCZC, USNM.
- [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus petersi var. janus Forel, 1911e: 228.]
- Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 146; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 42; Dlussky, 1994: 55.
- Replacement name: Camponotus janussus Bolton, 1995b: 106.
- janussus. Camponotus janussus Bolton, 1995b: 106.
- Replacement name for Camponotus (Colobopsis) janus Mann, 1921: 498. [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus petersi var. janus Forel, 1911e: 228.]
- Status as species: McArthur, 2012: 184.
- Junior synonym of polynesica: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48.
- maudella. Camponotus (Colobopsis) maudella Mann, 1921: 496, fig. 38 (s.w.q.m.) FIJI IS (Viti Levu).
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- [Note: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48, cite 32s, 25w, 9q, 7m syntypes (12s, 12w, 2q, 3m MCZC, 20s, 13w, 7q, 4m USNM).]
- Type-locality: Fiji Is: Viti Levu, Waiyanitu, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann).
- Type-depositories: MCZC, USNM.
- Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 146; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 42; Dlussky, 1994: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 110; McArthur, 2012: 116.
- Junior synonym of polynesica: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48.
- mayriella. Camponotus (Colobopsis) mayriella Mann, 1921: 494.
- Unnecessary (second) replacement name for carinata Mayr, 1870b: 943.
- Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 146; Dlussky, 1994: 55.
- Junior synonym of polynesica: Bolton, 1995b: 110.
- seemanni. Camponotus (Colobopsis) maudella var. seemanni Mann, 1921: 498 (s.w.q.) FIJI IS (Viti Levu).
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers , syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
- [Note: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48, cite 4s, 7w, 3q, 4m syntypes (1s, 4w, 1q, 2m MCZC, 3s, 3w, 2q, 2m USNM).]
- Type-locality: Fiji Is: Viti Levu, Nadarivatu, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann).
- Type-depositories: MCZC, USNM.
- Subspecies of maudella: Emery, 1925b: 146; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 43; Bolton, 1995b: 123; McArthur, 2012: 212.
- Junior synonym of polynesica: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 48.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 118, Senior synonym of mayriella (unnecessary second replacement name for carinata Mayr))
- Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)5:363-382 (page 374, Replacement name for Colobopsis carinata)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 146, Combination in C. (Colobopsis) (as mayriella))
- Mayr, G. 1870b. Neue Formiciden. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 20: 939-996 (page 943, [Junior secondary homonym of Formica carinata Brullé, 1840: 84.] )
- 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
- Dlussky G.M. 1994. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. Zhivotnoe naselenie ostrovov Iugo-Zapadnoi Okeanii ekologo-geograficheskie issledovanii 48-93.
- Emery C. 1886. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna 5: 363-382
- 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 D. 2008. Ecological partitioning and invasive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a tropical rain forest ant community from Fiji. Pacific Science 62(4): 473-482.
- 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
- Wilson E.O., and G.L. Hunt. 1967. Ant fauna of Futuna and Wallis islands, stepping stones to Polynesia. Pacific Insects 9(4): 563-584.
- Wilson, Edward O. and George L. Hunt. 1967. Ant Fauna of Futuna and Wallis Islands, Stepping Stones To Polynesia. Pacific Insects. 9(4):563-584.
- Wilson, Edward O. and Hunt, George L. Jr. 1967. Ant Fauna of Futuna and Wallis Islands, Stepping Stones to Polynesia. Pacific Insects. 9(4):563-584