Colobopsis vitrea oebalis

Colobopsis vitrea oebalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Colobopsis
Species:	C. vitrea
Subspecies:	C. vitrea oebalis
Trinomial name
	Colobopsis vitrea oebalis; (Forel, 1911)

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (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.

oebalis. Camponotus (Colobopsis) vitreus var. oebalis Forel, 1911b: 208 (w.) INDONESIA (Java).
- Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Indonesia: Java, Semarang (1000 m.) (E. Jacobson).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- [Misspelled as oebalus by McArthur, 2012: 86.]
- Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Subspecies of vitrea: Emery, 1925b: 149; Stärcke, 1930: 379; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 228; Bolton, 1995b: 115; McArthur, 2012: 86.
- Distribution: Indonesia (Java).

Description

References

Forel, A. 1911b. Ameisen aus Java beobachtet und gesammelt von Herrn Edward Jacobson. II. Theil. Notes Leyden Mus. 33: 193-218 (page 208, 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).