Carebara melasolena (Zhou & Zheng, 1997)

Liu, Cong, Guenard, Benoit, Garcia, Francisco Hita, Yamane, Seiki, Blanchard, Benjamin, Yang, Da-Rong & Economo, Evan, 2015, New records of ant species from Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 477, pp. 17-78 : 23-24

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.477.8775

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DFE4A6FC-7728-4576-A1F4-BD1D38173811

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/918CF05E-5FF3-37AD-5596-97F94E5330C2

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scientific name

Carebara melasolena (Zhou & Zheng, 1997)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Carebara melasolena (Zhou & Zheng, 1997) Figure 7

Material examined.

CHINA, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna: Kilometer 55 station (21.960°N, 101.199°E), Rain forest, 10.vi.2013, 23 workers, 840m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu.

Distribution.

Widely distributed in Middle and South China (Figure 7C).

Taxonomic note.

Carebara melasolena can be identified with the key provided by Zhou and Zheng (1997; treated as Pheidologeton melasolenus )

Natural history.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Carebara