Carebara nuda

Nothing is known about the biology of .

Identification
Fernández (2004) - A member of the Carebara escherichi species complex. This is the only known American Carebara of the escherichi group totally devoid of long hairs on body. There is little pubescense, limited to just a few areas.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil.

Nomenclature

 * . Carebara nuda Fernández, 2004a: 231, figs. 8I, 11 (w.) BRAZIL (Santa Catarina).
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 22 paratype workers.
 * Type-locality: holotype Brazil: Nueva Teutonia, 27°11’S, 52°23’W, 300-500 m., xii.1957, no. 194 (F. Plaumann); paratypes with same data.
 * Type-depositories: MZSP (holotype); BMNH, CPDC, IAVH, IMLT, JTLC, LACM, MCZC, MIZA, MZSP, PSWC, USNM, WEMC (paratypes).
 * [Note: paratypes are also recorded in UNCB, an abbreviation not listed by Fernández, 2004a: 194.]
 * Distribution: Brazil.

Worker
Holotype: HW 0.29; HL 0.38; SL 0.19; PW 0.21; WL 0.28; GL 0.38; TL 1.25; CI 77; SI 66.

Median portion of clypeus longitudinally bicarinate, the carinae diverging strongly anteriorly. A longitudinal and less narrow stripe. Eyes reduced to 1 ommatidium. Propodeal spiracle lower near and above bullae of metapleural gland. Dorsum of head densely sculptured with shallow foveolated punctures whose diameters are greater than the spaces separating them; dorsum of promesonotum and sloping face of propodeum densely reticulated. Dorsum of head with short curved pubescence (more towards borders), less on legs, a little on anterior margin of pronotum; absent on mesosoma and gaster. Long hairs absent on the body. A very few short hairs on petiole, postpetiole and gaster. Yellow brown.

Type Material
Holotype worker. BRAZIL. Nueva Teutonia, 27°11’S 52°23’W, 300-500 m, dic 1957, F. Plaumann No. 194, deposited in. Paratypes. 22 workers, same data as type, deposited in, , , , IML (collection uncertain), , , , , , , and.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Ulyssea M. A., C. R. F. Brandao. 2013. Catalogue of Dacetini and Solenopsidini ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Papies Avulsos de Zoologia 53(14): 187-209.
 * Ulyssea M.A., C. E. Cereto, F. B. Rosumek, R. R. Silva, and B. C. Lopes. 2011. Updated list of ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) recorded in Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil, with a discussion of research advances and priorities. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 55(4): 603-611.