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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Carebara

Carebara are mostly small ants (5 millimeters and smaller), some with very large gyne. While previously this genus consist of mostly ants with monomorphic workers, the merging (or rather absorbing into) of this genus with Oligomyrmex and Pheidologeton has render this to be no longer true.

I have maintained Carebara as those species that are monomorphic, Oligomyrmex as those that are dimorphic and Pheidologeton as those that exhibit a wide range of polymorphism.



Worker of Carebara sp
Worker of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Workers of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Workers of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Workers of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Workers of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Workers of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Workers of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
A worker of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Carebara sp. ant worker.

Worker of Carebara sp
 Worker of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Worker of Carebara sp.

Worker of Carebara sp
Worker of Carebara sp.


Alate male

The female alate

Alate female.





Carebara Sp2
A more typical species, this monmorphic species is around 1.3 millimeter total length.


See also:
Oligomyrmex (Carebara)
Pheidologeton (Carebara)



Taxonomy:
Top Node: cellular organisms 131567
SuperKingdom: Eukaryota 2759
No Rank: Opisthokonta 33154
Kingdom: Metazoa 33208
No Rank: Eumetazoa 6072
No Rank: Bilateria 33213
No Rank: Coelomata 33316
No Rank: Protostomia 33317
No Rank: Panarthropoda 88770
Phylum: Arthropoda 6656
No Rank: Mandibulata 197563
No Rank: Pancrustacea 197562
Superclass: Hexapoda 6960
Class: Insecta 50557
No Rank: Dicondylia 85512
No Rank: Pterygota 7496
Subclass: Neoptera 33340
Infraclass: Endopterygota 33392
Order: Hymenoptera 7399
No Rank: Apocrita 7400
Suborder: Aculeata 7434
Superfamily: Vespoidea 34725
Family: Formicidae 36668
Subfamily - Myrmicinae 34685
Tribe: Pheidologetonini 144016
Genus: Carebara 369107 / Oligomyrmex 369190



Last Updated: 2016 07 10
First Posted: 2014 03 27
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1 comment:

  1. I have caught a couple of queens from this ant genus. However, I am not sure on how I should raise them. There is very little information about them.

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