Carebara grandidieri

Carebara grandidieri is a widespread and common species in the Malagasy region, and has been recorded on Madagascar, Comoros and Mayotte. This species was collected in the following environments: along the roadside, coastal scrub, dry forest, gallery forest, grassland, littoral forest, montane rainforest, open secondary vegetation, rainforest, spiny forest/thicket, tropical dry forest, Uapaca woodland, and urban/garden. C. grandidieri was sampled at elevations ranging from 10 m to 1550 m. Individuals and colonies were collected in rotten logs, rotting tree stumps, soil, termite mounds, leaf litter, under moss, litter on rocks, under rotten logs, under stones, and in leaf litter. (Azorsa & Fisher, 2018)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Malagasy Region: Madagascar.

Nomenclature

 *  grandidieri. Oligomyrmex grandidieri Forel, 1891b: 201 (q.) MADAGASCAR.
 * Forel, 1895c: 250 (m.).
 * Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
 * Senior synonym of voeltzkowi: Azorsa & Fisher, 2018: 58.
 * voeltzkowi. Oligomyrmex voeltzkowi Forel, 1907g: 77 (q.) MADAGASCAR.
 * Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
 * Junior synonym of grandidieri: Azorsa & Fisher, 2018: 58.