Carebara melasolena

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China.

Biology
Carebara melasolena has been collected from leaf litter in primary forest.

Nomenclature

 * . Pheidologeton melasolenus Zhou & Zheng, 1997b: 163, figs. 1-3 (s.w.) CHINA (Guangxi).
 * Type-material: holotype large major worker, 2 paratype large major workers, 15 paratype small major workers, 14 paratype minor workers.
 * Type-locality: holotype China: Guangxi Prov., Jinxiu County, 24.ix.1995 (S. Zhou); paratypes: 5 small major workers, 8 minor workers with same data, 2 large major workers, 4 small major workers, 3 minor workers Guangxi Prov., Xin’an County, 25.vi.1994 (S. Zhou), 6 small major workers, 3 minor workers Guangxi Prov., Daming Mt, 30.x.1995 (S. Zhou).
 * Type-depositories: SNUX (holotype); GNUC (paratypes).
 * Combination in Carebara: Fischer, et al. 2014: 72.
 * Status as species: Zhou, 2001b: 91; Zhang, W. & Zheng, 2002: 219; Zhou, Zhao & Jia, 2006: 871 (in key); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 51; Liu, C., Guénard, et al. 2015: 30.
 * Distribution: China.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Fellowes J. R., M. W. N. Lau, D. Dudgeon, G. T. Reels, G. W. J. Ades, G. J. Carey, B. P. L. Chan, R. C. Kendrick, L. K. Shing, M. R. Leven, K. D. P. Wilson, and Y. Y. Tung. 2002. Wild animals to watch: terrestrial and freshwater fauna of concervation concern in Hong Kong. Memoirs of the Hong Kong Natural History Society 25: 123-160.
 * Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
 * Huang Jian-hua, and Zhou Shan-yi. 2007. Checklist of Family Formicidae of China - Myrmicinae (Part III). (Insecta; Hymenoptera). Journal of Guangxi normal University: Natural Science Edition 25(3): 88-96.
 * Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, 2001. Report of Rapid Biodiversity Assessments at Bawangling National Nature Reserve and Wangxia Limestone Forest, Western Hainan, 3 to 8 April 1998. South China Forest Biodiversity Survey Report Series (Online Simplified Version): No. 2. KFBG, Hong Kong SAR, ii + 28 pp.
 * Liu C, B. Guénard, F Hita Garcia, S. Yamane, B. Blanchard, and E. Economo. New records of ant species from Yunnan, China. Submitted to Zookeys
 * Skarbek C. J., M. Noack, H. Bruelheide, W. Hardtle, G. von Oheimb, T. Scholten, S. Seitz, M. Staab. 2019. A tale of scale: plot but not neighbourhood tree diversity increases leaf litter ant diversity. Journal of Animal Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13115
 * Zhou S. Y., S. Zhao, and F. L. Jia. 2006. A taxonomic study on the ant genus Pheidologeton Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 31(4): 870-873
 * Zhou S.-Y., S. Zhao and F.-L. Jia. 2006. A taxonomic study on the ant genus Pheidologeton Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Myrimcinae) from China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 31(4): 870-873