Colobostruma
Appearance
Colobostruma | |
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Colobostruma foliacea worker | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Colobostruma Wheeler, 1927 |
Type species | |
Epopostruma leae Wheeler, 1927
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Diversity[1] | |
16 species | |
Synonyms | |
Alistruma Brown, 1948 |
Colobostruma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] All except one species are restricted to Australia. The only non-Australian species, C. foliacea, is found in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.[3]
Species
[edit]- Colobostruma alinodis (Forel, 1913)
- Colobostruma australis Brown, 1959
- Colobostruma biconcava Shattuck, 2000
- Colobostruma biconvexa Shattuck, 2000
- Colobostruma bicorna Shattuck, 2000
- Colobostruma cerornata Brown, 1959
- Colobostruma elliotti (Clark, 1928)
- Colobostruma foliacea (Emery, 1897)
- Colobostruma froggatti (Forel, 1913)
- Colobostruma lacuna Shattuck, 2000
- Colobostruma leae (Wheeler, 1927)
- Colobostruma mellea Shattuck, 2000
- Colobostruma nancyae Brown, 1965
- Colobostruma papulata Brown, 1965
- Colobostruma sisypha Shattuck, 2000
- Colobostruma unicorna Shattuck, 2000
References
[edit]- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Colobostruma". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ "Genus: Colobostruma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Shattuck, S. O. 2000. "Genus Colobostruma. Genus Mesostruma. Genus Epopostruma." Pp. 31-67 in: Bolton, B. 2000. "The ant tribe Dacetini." Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65: 1-1028
External links
[edit]- Media related to Colobostruma at Wikimedia Commons