Carebara melasolena

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China.

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

Nomenclature

 *  melasolena. Pheidologeton melasolenus Zhou & Zheng, 1997b: 163, figs. 1-3 (s.w.) CHINA. Combination in Carebara: Fischer, Azorsa & Fisher, 2014: 72.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * 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.
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 * 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
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 * 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