Species Colobopsis vitrea (Smith, 1860)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Formica vitrea Smith, F. 1860. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A.R. Wallace in the Islands of Bachian, Kaisaa, Amboyne, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 4(suppl.): 93-143 pl. 1 [18 July 1860] [94].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH *W, Bachian, Indonesia.
• Prenolepis adlerzii Forel, A. 1886. Études myrmécologiques en 1886. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 30: 131-215 [209].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GMNH *W, Darnley Is., QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Emery, C. 1925. Hymenoptera fam. Formicidae, subfam. Formicinae. pp. 1–302 in Wytsman, P. (ed.) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 183 pp. [148]

Generic Combinations

• Colobopsis vitreus (Smith, 1860).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore, open forest, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

General References

McArthur, A.J. & Shattuck, S.O. 2001. A review of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 125: 25-43 [41] (diagnosis, redescription, new records)

Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072(3): 343-357 [350] (transferred from previous position as Camponotus vitreus)

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