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Colobopsis rothneyi
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Colobopsis |
| Species: | C. rothneyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Colobopsis rothneyi (Forel, 1893)
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 22.675° to 22.675°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Singapore.
Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India (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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| Syntype of Camponotus rothneyi. Worker. Specimen code casent0910588. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland. |
    
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| Syntype of Camponotus rothneyi taivanae. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0910589. 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.
- rothneyi. Camponotus (Colobopsis) rothneyi Forel, 1893b: 435 (s.q.) INDIA (West Bengal, Odisha).
- Type-material: 1 syntype major worker, 1 syntype queen.
- Type-localities: worker India: Barrackpore (G.A.J. Rothney), queen India: Orissa (Taylor).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Status as species: Emery, 1896d 376 (in list); Rothney, 1903: 99; Bingham, 1903: 346; Yano, 1910: 422; Forel, 1913k: 132 (footnote); Viehmeyer, 1916a: 162; Emery, 1925b: 146; Teranishi, 1940: 40; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 226; Bolton, 1995b: 120; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 108; McArthur, 2012: 180; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 25; Wang, W.Y., Soh, et al. 2022: 45.
- Distribution: India, Singapore.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus krafti, makilingi.
Description
Worker
Bingham (1903): Major: Short, broad, with the head comparatively very massive and large. Head and thorax testaceous brown; abdomen black, shining, the posterior margins of the segments yellowish white. Head cylindrical, the truncated portion concave; clypeus medially vertically carinate, the front behind the margin of the truncation coarsely reticulate-punctate. Thorax broad, comparatively broader than in the other Indian species; pro-meso- and meso-metanotal sutures distinct, the thorax not emarginate at the latter. Node of pedicel transverse; abdomen massive.
Length: 4 mm
Queen
Bingham (1903): Larger relatively to the major than in other Indian species ; head more elongate than in the major; metanotum more convex.
Length: 7 mm
References
- Forel, A. 1893c. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 430-439 (page 435, soldier, worker, queen described)
- Forel, A. 1913l. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Her (page 132, see also (footnote))
- Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
- Wang, W.Y., Soh, E.J.Y., Yong, G.W.J., Wong, M.K.L., Benoit Guénard, Economo, E.P., Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006 (doi:10.20362/am.015006).
- 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
- Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128
- Forel A. 1893. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 430-439.
- Li Z.h. 2006. List of Chinese Insects. Volume 4. Sun Yat-sen University Press