Colobopsis rothneyi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Singapore. Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India.

Nomenclature

 *  rothneyi. Camponotus (Colobopsis) rothneyi Forel, 1893b: 435 (s.w.q.) INDIA.
 * See also: Forel, 1913k: 132 (footnote).
 * Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, et al., 2016: 350.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus krafti, makilingi.

Description
Worker

Bingham (1903): Major: Short, broad, with the head comparatively very massive and large. Head and thorax testaceous brown; abdomen black, shining, the posterior margins of the segments yellowish white. Head cylindrical, the truncated portion concave; clypeus medially vertically carinate, the front behind the margin of the truncation coarsely reticulate-punctate. Thorax broad, comparatively broader than in the other Indian species; pro-meso- and meso-metanotal sutures distinct, the thorax not emarginate at the latter. Node of pedicel transverse; abdomen massive.

Length: 4 mm

Queen

Bingham (1903): Larger relatively to the major than in other Indian species ; head more elongate than in the major; metanotum more convex.

Length: 7 mm

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128
 * Forel A. 1893. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 430-439.
 * Li Z.h. 2006. List of Chinese Insects. Volume 4. Sun Yat-sen University Press