Colobopsis stricta

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia. Oriental Region: India.

Nomenclature

 *  strictus. Formica stricta Jerdon, 1851: 123 (w.) INDIA. Bingham, 1903: 344 (s.q.). Combination in Colobopsis: Mayr, 1863: 403; in Camponotus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 253; in C. (Colobopsis): Forel, 1893b: 438. Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, et al., 2016: 350.

Description
Worker

Jerdon (1851): Head nearly square, slightly narrowed anteriorly; jaws rough, triangular, strongly toothed; eyes large, posterior; prothorax wide, metathorax narrowed; post thorax in the form of a rounded raised narrow platform, ending in two points, and truncated; abdominal pedicle blunt, rounded, raised; abdomen short, oval; antenne rufous, head and thorax dull greenish black, ahagreened; abdomen shining glaucous green; legs shining black.

Bingham (1903): Major: Black with a few scattered erect brown hairs, and a soft thin greyish pile chiefly visible on the abdomen; antennae, thorax and legs very dark castaneous brown, almost, but not quite, black. Head very large and massive, a little narrower in front than across the vertex, the anterior truncated portion of the head depressed, the basal portion of the clypeus being thus bent downwards and inwards; the cbeeks on either side of the depressed portion acutely ridged and coarsely obliquely striate; the lower portion of the head above truncation longitudinally striate. Thorax narrow, a shallow transverse, rather broad sulcus marking the meso-metanotal suture; basal portion of metanotum rounded above and posteriorly, apical portion obliquely truncate; legs stout, posterior tibiae very slightly compressed. Node of pedicel bluntly conical; abdomen narrow, elongate. Minor: Similar, smaller; head comparatively broader and not so cylindrical, anteriorly more obtuse than truncate ; head and thorax more pubescent.

Length: Major-11 - 12 mm; Minor-9 - 9.5 mm

Queen

Bingham (1903): Similar to the major; head not so large or so sharply truncate; truncated portion not so depressed.

Length: 12.5 mm

Note: Bingham says "It is with some doubt that he has described as C. stricta specimens of a Colobopsis in the British Museum Collection from India, Burma, and Borneo, labelled as such by the late Mr. F, Smith. Jerdon's original description is quite inadequate for certain identification; he gives the metanotum as bideutate posteriorly ("post-thorax in the form of a rounded narrow platform ending in two points"). None of the specimens in the British Museum labelled C. stricta have the metanotum bidentate, otherwise, however, they answer very well to Jerdon's description so far as this goes".

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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