Carebara nuda

Nothing is known about the biology of .

Identification
Fernández (2004) - 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

 *  nuda. Carebara nuda Fernández, 2004a: 231, figs. 8I, 11 (w.) 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, CEPLAC, , , IML, , , , , , , UNCB and.