Colobopsis vitrea vittatula

Colobopsis vitrea vittatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Colobopsis
Species:	C. vitrea
Subspecies:	C. vitrea vittatula
Trinomial name
Colobopsis vitrea vittatula (Forel, 1913)

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (type locality), Singapore.

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.

• vittatula. Camponotus (Colobopsis) vitreus var. vittatula Forel, 1913k: 133 (in text) (q.) INDONESIA (Sumatra).
  • Type-material: holotype queen.
  • Type-locality: Indonesia: Sumatra, Tandjong Slamat, 9.iv.-14.vi.1912 (H. von Buttel-Reepen).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
  • Subspecies of vitrea: Viehmeyer, 1916a: 160; Emery, 1925b: 149; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 228; Bolton, 1995b: 129; McArthur, 2012: 88; Wang, W.Y., Soh, et al. 2022: 46.
  • Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra), Singapore.

References

• 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 133, queen described)
• 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).