TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovery of a new phragmotic species of the ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Cambodia
AU - Hosoishi, Shingo
AU - Yamane, Seiki
AU - Sokh, Heng
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Phourin Chhang and Choeung Hong Narith (Forestry Administration of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) for providing permission to conduct research in Cambodia, issuing a specimen export permit to Kyushu University, Japan, and suggesting the type depository of new species. We also express our thanks to Tsuyoshi Kajisa (Kagoshima University), Nobuya Mizoue (Kyushu University), Tetsukazu Yahara (Kyushu University) for helping our field surveys in this study. We would like to thank Frank Azorsa, Georg Fischer and Rodolfo Probst for valuable comments on the manuscript. We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.com) for English language editing. We would like to thank ANeT members for encouragement. This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant Number 21K05616, 19K06824, and Global COE Program (Center of Excellence for Asian Conservation Ecology as a basis of Human-Nature Mutualism), MEXT, Japan.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank Phourin Chhang and Choeung Hong Narith (Forestry Administration of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) for providing permission to conduct research in Cambodia, issuing a specimen export permit to Kyushu University, Japan, and suggesting the type depository of new species. We also express our thanks to Tsuy-oshi Kajisa (Kagoshima University), Nobuya Mizoue (Kyushu University), Tetsukazu Yahara (Kyushu University) for helping our field surveys in this study. We would like to thank Frank Azorsa, Georg Fischer and Rodolfo Probst for valuable comments on the manuscript. We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.com) for English language editing. We would like to thank ANeT members for encouragement. This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant Number 21K05616, 19K06824, and Global COE Program (Center of Excellence for Asian Conservation Ecology as a basis of Human-Nature Mutualism), MEXT, Japan.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Several phragmotic species in the ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 with a cephalic shield are known from the Old World, but species with an anteriorly truncated head seem to be unknown until now. A new species, resembling the phragmotic workers of the ant genus Colobopsis, is here described as Carebara colobopsis Hosoishi & Yamane, sp. nov., based on major and minor worker found in Cambodia. This new species is similar to Carebara acutispina (Xu) and C. obtusidenta (Xu) in some important characters, but distinguished from the latter two by distinct metanotum and deep groove in front of metanotal disc in the major worker, and longer head and deep metanotal groove in the minor worker. This is the first confirmed record of a truncated phragmotic head in the major worker of the genus Carebara. We propose the Carebara acutispina species group to include all the three species, present a diagnosis of this group, and provide a key to species based on the major and minor worker castes.
AB - Several phragmotic species in the ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 with a cephalic shield are known from the Old World, but species with an anteriorly truncated head seem to be unknown until now. A new species, resembling the phragmotic workers of the ant genus Colobopsis, is here described as Carebara colobopsis Hosoishi & Yamane, sp. nov., based on major and minor worker found in Cambodia. This new species is similar to Carebara acutispina (Xu) and C. obtusidenta (Xu) in some important characters, but distinguished from the latter two by distinct metanotum and deep groove in front of metanotal disc in the major worker, and longer head and deep metanotal groove in the minor worker. This is the first confirmed record of a truncated phragmotic head in the major worker of the genus Carebara. We propose the Carebara acutispina species group to include all the three species, present a diagnosis of this group, and provide a key to species based on the major and minor worker castes.
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U2 - 10.3897/JHR.91.82490
DO - 10.3897/JHR.91.82490
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85134813448
SN - 1070-9428
VL - 91
SP - 357
EP - 374
JO - Journal of Hymenoptera Research
JF - Journal of Hymenoptera Research
ER -