Genus Carebara Westwood, 1840

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• Carebara Westwood, J.O. 1840. Observations on the genus Typhlopone, with descriptions of several exotic species of ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 81-89 [86].
• Pheidologeton Mayr, G.L. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: Abhand. 649-776 pl. 19 [750] [redefined in Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 73–171].

  Type species:

   Oecodoma diversa Jerdon, 1851 by subsequent designation, see Bingham, C.T. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. Ants and cuckoo-wasps. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2 507 pp. 1 pl. [160].

  Secondary source:

   Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 73-171.
• Oligomyrmex Mayr, G.L. 1867. Adnotationes in Monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10: 33-117 [110 pl. 2].

  Type species:

   Oligomyrmex concinnus Mayr, 1867 by monotypy.
• Octella Forel, A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(no.16): 1-119, pls 1-3 [Date published 4 Dec. 1915] [69 pls 1-3] [described with subgeneric rank in Oligomyrmex Mayr, 1867].

  Type species:

   Oligomyrmex (Octella) pachycerus Forel, 1915 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fernandez, F. 2004. The American Species of the Myrmicine Ant Genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26: 191-238 [193]
• Fischer, G., Azorsa, F. & Fisher, B.L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438: 57-112 [63]

Introduction

Unidentified species reported from Lord Howe Island by Jennings and Austin (2015).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

General References

Jennings, J.T. & Austin, A.D. 2015. Synopsis of the hymenopteran fauna of Lord Howe Island with a preliminary checklist of species. Zootaxa 3931(3): 423–432

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