Colobopsis levuana

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Colobopsis levuana (Mann, 1921) valid

Camponotus (Myrmogonia) laminatus var. levuanus Mann, 1921: 479 (w.) FIJI (Vanua Levu). Oceania.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a small series”). Primary type locality: Fiji Is: Vanua Levu, Wainunu, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depository: USNM (perhaps also MCZC). Type notes: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 59, cite 4 w, 3 male syntypes in USNM (males are not mentioned in the original description).

Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
Subspecies of Colobopsis laminata: Emery, 1925d: 144; Wheeler, 1935g: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 108; McArthur, 2012: 28.
Status as species: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 59.

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Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
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 4072:343-357. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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