Carebara melasolena (Zhou & Zheng, 1997)

Liu, Cong, Guenard, Benoit, Garcia, Francisco Hita, Yamane, Seiki, Blanchard, Benjamin, Yang, Da-Rong & Economo, Evan, 2015, New records of ant species from Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 477, pp. 17-78 : 23-24

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.477.8775
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scientific name	Carebara melasolena (Zhou & Zheng, 1997)
status

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Carebara melasolena (Zhou & Zheng, 1997) Figure 7

Material examined.

CHINA, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna: Kilometer 55 station (21.960°N, 101.199°E), Rain forest, 10.vi.2013, 23 workers, 840m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu.

Distribution.

Widely distributed in Middle and South China (Figure 7C).

Taxonomic note.

Carebara melasolena can be identified with the key provided by Zhou and Zheng (1997; treated as Pheidologeton melasolenus )

Natural history.

Carebara melasolena has been collected from leaf litter in primary forest.