Colobopsis cotesii Forel 1893

Saroj, S., Mandi, A., Basak, N. & Mandal, P., 2024, THE BUXA TIGER RESERVE AS A ‘ HOT SPOT’ OF ANT DIVERSITY IN WEST BENGAL STATE (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE), Far Eastern Entomologist 503, pp. 16-22 : 19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25221/fee.503.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3268F24C-9005-45A1-8E4E-40F0923BD54A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13260914

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC87CC-8A19-7920-FF12-FCA5FBC134EC

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Felipe

scientific name

Colobopsis cotesii Forel 1893
status

 

Colobopsis cotesii Forel 1893

MATERIAL EXAMINED. India: West Bengal, District Alipurduar, Buxa Tiger Reserve, North point, 26°43'597" N, 089°45'039" E, 03.XII 2018, 1 worker, leg. S. Sheela (Reg. No. 22247/H3) .

DISTRIBUTION. India, China.

REMARKS. This species was originally described from Mussoori Hills in India. It was later reported from Assam ( Bingham 1903) . After that it was recorded from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand ( Bharti et al., 2016) Here C. cotesii is found from an unknown tree trunk in the core area of Buxa reserve (new record for West Bengal) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Colobopsis

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