The Ants of Africa
Genus Carebara
Carebara ampla Santschi

Carebara ampla Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Carebara ampla n. sp., Santschi, 1912d: 284, queen & male) collected by Gérard at Majunga - see below
subspecies cincta (Carebara ampla Santschi v. cincta n. var., Santschi, 1926d: 230, queen) from Zaïre, Elizabethville - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913478
obscurithorax (Carebara ampla Santschi v. obscurithorax n. var., Santschi, 1926b: 230, queen) from Zaïre, Lukonzolwa, Dr Stappers - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913479
rugosa (Carebara ampla Sants. rugosa n. var., Santschi, 1928f: 197, queen) also from Zaïre, Lukonzolwa, Dr Stappers - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913480
queen and male only described (see Bolton, 1995) .


Santschi's (1912d) description of the queen and male is at {original description}. Santschi's (1926b) descriptions of cincta and obscurithorax are at {original description}. Santschi's (1928f) descriptions of rugosa is at {original description}.


{Carebara ampla queen}The photomontage of the type queen is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913477

Apart from minor variations in colour, the varieties (not subspecies, that is a Bolton misnomer) appear near identical to the type form.

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