Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 96 valid species, 22 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Colobopsis as subgenus of
Camponotus:
Emery, 1889: 517;
Forel, 1892k PDF: 221 (in key);
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 219;
Emery, 1893k PDF: 670 (in key);
Forel, 1893b PDF: 165;
Forel, 1893c PDF: 435;
Forel, 1894d PDF: 7;
Emery, 1895l PDF: 772;
Forel, 1899b PDF: 130;
Wheeler, 1904c PDF: 139;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 144;
Forel, 1912j PDF: 90;
Forel, 1914a PDF: 263;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 227;
Forel, 1917 PDF: 251;
Emery, 1920b PDF: 247;
Arnold, 1922 PDF: 613;
Wheeler, 1922: 708;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 144;
Donisthorpe, 1943g: 634;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 390;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 222;
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 42;
Smith, 1979: 1433;
Bolton, 1994: 50;
Bolton, 1995b: 24;
Bolton, 2003 PDF: 113, 268.
Colobopsis as genus:
Mayr, 1861 PDF: 38;
Mayr, 1862 PDF: 652;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 403;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 9;
Mayr, 1865 PDF: 7;
Mayr, 1870b PDF: 940;
Dours, 1873 PDF: 164;
Forel, 1874 PDF: 43;
Forel, 1878c PDF: 368;
Forel, 1879a PDF: 125;
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 449;
Forel, 1891c PDF: 76;
André, 1882c PDF: 159;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 342;
Forel, 1886h PDF: 193;
Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 66;
Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 19;
Jaffe, 1993: 14;
Ward et al., 2016 PDF: 349.
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 403;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 9;
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 449;
Cresson, 1887 PDF: 255;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 219;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 143 (
Camponotus (Myrmogonia));
Emery, 1925d PDF: 144 (
Camponotus (Colobopsis));
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 222 (in
Camponotus);
Smith, 1951c PDF: 839 (North America, in
Camponotus);
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 42 (Neotropical,
Camponotus (Colobopsis));
Smith, 1979: 1433 (North America,
Camponotus (Colobopsis));
Taylor & Brown, 1985: 109 (Australia, in
Camponotus);
Taylor, 1987a PDF: 10, 16 (Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, in
Camponotus);
Bolton, 1995b: 83 (in
Camponotus). [Note: world list of species in
Camponotus (Colobopsis):
Forel, 1914a PDF: 272;
Emery, 1920b PDF: 259;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 144;
Bolton, 1995b: 131.]
Ward et al., 2016 PDF: 341 (
Camponotus/
Colobopsis separation key);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 155 (brief male diagnosis);
Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 16, 26 (diagnosis, New World species revision, key);
Heterick, 2021 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 PDF: 104 (Western Australia species key);
Ward & Boudinot, 2021 10.3897/asp.79.e66978 PDF: 52 (male-based genus diagnosis, key);
Borowiec & Salata, 2022 PDF: 149 (diagnosis).
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria Americas: Bahamas,
Cuba,
Guatemala,
Mexico,
United States Asia: Armenia,
Bangladesh,
Borneo,
Brunei,
China,
Cyprus,
Georgia,
India,
Indonesia,
Israel,
Japan,
Jordan,
Laos,
Malaysia,
Myanmar,
Nicobar Island,
Philippines,
Singapore,
South Korea,
Sri Lanka,
Taiwan,
Thailand,
Turkey,
Turkmenistan,
Vietnam Europe: Albania,
Andorra,
Austria,
Balearic Islands,
Bulgaria,
Croatia,
Czech Republic,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Hungary,
Italy,
Macedonia,
Malta,
Moldova,
Montenegro,
Netherlands,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
Spain,
Switzerland,
Ukraine Oceania: Australia,
Fiji,
Lord Howe Island,
New Caledonia,
New Zealand,
Papua New Guinea,
Samoa,
Solomon Islands,
Tonga,
Vanuatu Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Australasia,
Indomalaya,
Nearctic,
Neotropical,
Oceania,
Palearctic Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Australasia,
Indomalaya,
Nearctic,
Neotropical,
Oceania,
Palearctic
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia