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Colobopsis tricolor
| Colobopsis tricolor | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Colobopsis |
| Species: | C. tricolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Colobopsis tricolor Stitz, 1912
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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. |
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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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| Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0906968. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMUK, London, UK. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- tricolor. Colobopsis tricolor Stitz, 1912: 511, fig. 13 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
- Type-material: holotype queen.
- Type-locality: Papua New Guinea (“Deutsch Neu-Guinea”): (no further data), (Kaiserin-Augustafluss-Expd.) (Bürgers).
- Type-depository: MNHU.
- Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Forel, 1914a: 272;
- combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 147; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 227; Bolton, 1995b: 127.
- [Note: McArthur, 2012: 128, confused the name Colobopsis tricolor Stitz (type-locality Papua New Guinea) with Camponotus tricolor Weber (type-locality South Sudan), and consequently incorrectly used the redundant replacement name tamari for tricolor Stitz.]
- 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 126, Replacement name: tameri Bolton, catalogue)
- Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 272, Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis))
- 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).
- Stitz, H. 1912. Ameisen aus Ceram und Neu-Guinea. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1912: 498-514 (page 511, fig. 13 queen 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).
- Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389 (page 387, pl. 16, fig. 33 worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Stitz H. 1912. Ameisen aus Ceram und Neu-Guinea. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1912: 498-514.