Colobopsis vitrea angustula

Colobopsis vitrea angustula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Colobopsis
Species:	C. vitrea
Subspecies:	C. vitrea angustula
Trinomial name
Colobopsis vitrea angustula (Emery, 1925)
Synonyms
Colobopsis angustata Mayr, 1870

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 3.2726° to 3.2726°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Singapore (type locality).
Oriental Region: Bangladesh.

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.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• angustata. Colobopsis angustata Mayr, 1870b: 942 (q.) SINGAPORE.
  • Type-material: holotype queen.
  • Type-locality: Singapore: (no further data) (von Ransonnet).
  • Type-depository: NHMW.
  • [Junior secondary homonym of Formica angustata Latreille, 1798: 34.]
  • Forel, 1913k: 133 (w.m.); Viehmeyer, 1916a: 160 (s.m.).
  • Combination in Camponotus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 221;
  • combination in C. (Colobopsis): Forel, 1893b: 435.
  • Status as species: Forel, 1893b: 436; Dalla Torre, 1893: 221; Emery, 1896d: 374 (in list); Bingham, 1903: 345; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 222 (error).
  • Subspecies of vitrea: Forel, 1895e: 455 (in text); Emery, 1900d: 708; Forel, 1909d: 229; Forel, 1911d: 391; Forel, 1912n: 67; Forel, 1913k: 133; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 160; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 253; Wheeler, W.M. 1937a: 24; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 228.
  • Replacement name: Camponotus (Colobopsis) vitreus var. angustula Emery, 1925b: 148.
• angustula. Camponotus (Colobopsis) vitreus var. angustula Emery, 1925b: 148.
  • Replacement name for Camponotus angustata Mayr, 1870b: 942. [Junior secondary homonym of Formica angustata Latreille, 1798: 34.]
  • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
  • Subspecies of vitrea: Menozzi, 1930a: 4; Bolton, 1995b: 85; McArthur, 2012: 84; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 26; Wang, W.Y., Soh, et al. 2022: 46.
  • Material of the unavailable name continentalis referred here by Viehmeyer, 1925b: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 85.
  • Distribution: India, Indonesia (Enggano, Krakatau, Sumatra), Malaysia (Peninsula), Myanmar, Singapore.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 85, catalogue)
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 148, replacement name for angustata Mayr)
• Viehmeyer, H. 1925b. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Schluss.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 139-149 (page 145, Material of the unavailable name continentalis referred here.)
• 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).