Colobopsis quadriceps curvata
Colobopsis quadriceps curvata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Colobopsis |
Species: | C. quadriceps |
Subspecies: | C. quadriceps curvata |
Trinomial name | |
Colobopsis quadriceps curvata (Stitz, 1911) |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- curvata. Camponotus quadriceps var. curvatus Stitz, 1911a: 372, fig. 18 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a number”).
- Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain I., Ralum (F. Dahl).
- Type-depository: MNHU.
- Combination in C. (Colobopsis): Emery, 1925b: 150;
- combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Subspecies of quadriceps: Emery, 1925b: 150; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 43; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 226; Bolton, 1995b: 95; McArthur, 2012: 216.
- Distribution: Papua New Guinea.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 95, catalogue)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 150, combination in C. (Colobopsis))
- Stitz, H. 1911a. Australische Ameisen. (Neu-Guinea und Salomons-Inseln, Festland, Neu-Seeland). Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1911: 351-381 (page 372, fig. 18 worker described)
- 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).