Colobopsis vitrea carinata

Colobopsis vitrea carinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Colobopsis
Species:	C. vitrea
Subspecies:	C. vitrea carinata
Trinomial name
Colobopsis vitrea carinata (Stitz, 1938)

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.

Nomenclature

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

• carinatuas. Camponotus (Colobopsis) vitreus r. carinata Stitz, 1938: 116 (q.) NEW GUINEA. [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Formica carinata Brullé, above (Bolton, 1995b: 91). Note that the proposed replacement name, neocarinata Baroni Urbani, 1971b: 361, is unavailable.] Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, et al., 2016: 350.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 91, catalogue)
• Stitz, H. 1938. Neue Ameisen aus dem indo-malayischen Gebiet. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1938: 99-122 (page 116, queen described [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Formica carinata Brulle. The proposed replacement name, neocarinata Baroni Urbani, 1971:361, is unavailable.])
• 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).