Carebara

Carebara is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It is one of the largest myrmicine genera with more than 200 species distributed worldwide in the tropics and the Afrotropical region. Many of them are very tiny cryptic soil and leaf-litter inhabitants. They nest in rotten wood to which the bark is still adherent in the Afrotropical region, or may be lestobiotic nesting near other ant species. Some species are known to exist parasitically within termite nests. Little is known about the biology of the genus, but they are notable for the vast difference in size between queens and workers.

Carebara
Carebara longii worker from the United States
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Carebara Westwood, 1840
Type species
Carebara lignata
Diversity
245 extant valid species
Synonyms
List Aeromyrma Forel, 1891 Afroxyidris Belshaw & Bolton, 1994 Amauromyrmex Wheeler, 1929 Aneleus Emery, 1900 Crateropsis Patrizi, 1948 Erebomyrma Wheeler, 1903 Hendecatella Wheeler, 1927 Idrisella Santschi, 1937 Lecanomyrma Forel, 1913 Neoblepharidatta Sheela & Narendran, 1997 Nimbamyrma Bernard, 1953 Oligomyrmex Mayr, 1867 Paedalgus Forel, 1911 Parvimyrma Eguchi & Bui, 2007 Pheidologeton Mayr, 1862 Phidologeton Bingham, 1903 Solenops Karavaiev, 1930 Spelaeomyrmex Wheeler, 1922 Sporocleptes Arnold, 1948

Species

• Carebara aborensis (Wheeler, 1913)
• Carebara abuhurayri Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011
• Carebara acuta (Weber, 1952)
• Carebara acutispina (Xu, 2003)
• Carebara affinis (Jerdon, 1851)
• Carebara afghana (Pisarski, 1970)
• Carebara africana (Forel, 1910)
• Carebara alluaudi (Santschi, 1913)
• Carebara alperti Fernández, 2010
• Carebara alpha (Forel, 1905)
• Carebara altinoda (Xu, 2003)
• Carebara amia (Forel, 1913)
• Carebara ampla Santschi, 1912
• Carebara angolensis (Santschi, 1914)
• Carebara angulata Fernández, 2004
• Carebara anophthalma (Emery, 1906)
• †Carebara antiqua (Mayr, 1868)
• Carebara arabara Fernández, 2010
• Carebara arabica (Collingwood & Van Harten, 2001)
• Carebara armata (Donisthorpe, 1948)
• Carebara arnoldi (Forel, 1913)
• Carebara arnoldiella (Santschi, 1919)
• Carebara asina (Forel, 1902)
• Carebara atoma (Emery, 1900)
• Carebara audita Fernández, 2004
• Carebara bartrumi Weber, 1943
• Carebara bengalensis (Forel, 1902)
• Carebara beta (Forel, 1905)
• Carebara bicarinata Santschi, 1912
• Carebara bihornata (Xu, 2003)
• †Carebara bohemica (Novák, 1877)
• Carebara borealis (Terayama, 1996)
• Carebara bouvardi (Santschi, 1913)
• Carebara brasiliana Fernández, 2004
• Carebara brevipilosa Fernández, 2004
• Carebara bruchi (Santschi, 1933)
• Carebara bruni (Forel, 1913)
• Carebara butteli (Forel, 1913)
• Carebara capreola (Wheeler, 1927)
• Carebara carinata Bharti & Kumar, 2013
• Carebara castanea Smith, 1858
• Carebara coeca Fernández, 2004
• Carebara concinna (Mayr, 1867)
• Carebara convexa (Weber, 1950)
• Carebara coqueta Fernández, 2006
• Carebara cornigera (Forel, 1902)
• Carebara crassiuscula (Emery, 1900)
• Carebara cribriceps (Wheeler, 1927)
• Carebara crigensis (Belshaw & Bolton, 1994)
• Carebara curvispina (Xu, 2003)
• Carebara debilis (Santschi, 1913)
• Carebara dentata Bharti & Kumar, 2013
• Carebara deponens (Walker, 1859)
• Carebara diabola (Santschi, 1913)
• Carebara diabolica (Baroni Urbani, 1969)
• Carebara distincta (Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
• Carebara diversa (Jerdon, 1851)
• Carebara donisthorpei (Weber, 1950)
• Carebara elmenteitae (Patrizi, 1948)
• Carebara elongata Fernández, 2004
• Carebara erythraea (Emery, 1915)
• Carebara escherichi (Forel, 1911)
• Carebara fayrouzae Sharaf, 2013
• Carebara frontalis (Weber, 1950)
• Carebara globularia Fernández, 2004
• Carebara grandidieri (Forel, 1891)
• Carebara guineana Fernández, 2006
• Carebara hannya (Terayama, 1996)
• Carebara hornata Bharti & Kumar, 2013
• Carebara hunanensis (Wu & Wang, 1995)
• Carebara inca Fernández, 2004
• Carebara incerta (Santschi, 1919)
• Carebara incierta Fernández, 2004
• Carebara infima (Santschi, 1913)
• Carebara intermedia Fernández, 2004
• Carebara jacobsoni (Forel, 1911)
• Carebara jeanneli (Santschi, 1913)
• Carebara jiangxiensis (Wu & Wang, 1995)
• Carebara junodi Forel, 1904
• Carebara khamiensis (Arnold, 1952)
• Carebara kofana Fernández, 2004
• Carebara lamellifrons (Forel, 1902)
• Carebara langi Wheeler, 1922
• Carebara latro (Santschi, 1937)
• Carebara leei (Forel, 1902)
• Carebara lignata Westwood, 1840
• Carebara longiceps (Santschi, 1929)
• Carebara longii (Wheeler, 1903)
• Carebara lucida (Santschi, 1917)
• Carebara lusciosa (Wheeler, 1928)
• Carebara majeri Fernández, 2004
• Carebara manni (Donisthorpe, 1941)
• Carebara mayri (Forel, 1901)
• Carebara menozzii (Ettershank, 1966)
• Carebara minima (Emery, 1900)
• Carebara minuta Fernández, 2004
• Carebara mjobergi (Forel, 1915)
• Carebara nana (Santschi, 1919)
• Carebara nayana (Sheela & Narendran, 1997)
• †Carebara nitida (Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002)
• Carebara norfolkensis (Donisthorpe, 1941)
• Carebara nosindambo (Forel, 1891)
• Carebara nuda Fernández, 2004
• Carebara obtusidenta (Xu, 2003)
• Carebara octata (Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
• Carebara oertzeni (Forel, 1886)
• Carebara oni (Terayama, 1996)
• Carebara osborni Wheeler, 1922
• Carebara overbecki (Viehmeyer, 1916)
• Carebara paeta (Santschi, 1937)
• Carebara panamensis (Wheeler, 1925)
• Carebara patrizii Menozzi, 1927
• Carebara paya Fernández, 2004
• Carebara perpusilla (Emery, 1895)
• Carebara peruviana (Emery, 1906)
• Carebara petulca (Wheeler, 1922)
• Carebara pilosa Fernández, 2004
• Carebara pisinna (Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
• Carebara polita (Santschi, 1914)
• Carebara polyphemus (Wheeler, 1928)
• Carebara propomegata Bharti & Kumar, 2013
• Carebara pseudolusciosa (Wu & Wang, 1995)
• Carebara punctata (Karavaiev, 1931)
• Carebara qianliyan Terayama, 2009
• Carebara raja (Forel, 1902)
• Carebara rara (Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
• Carebara rectangulata Bharti & Kumar, 2013
• Carebara rectidorsa (Xu, 2003)
• Carebara reina Fernández, 2004
• Carebara reticapita (Xu, 2003)
• Carebara reticulata Fernández, 2004
• Carebara robertsoni (Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
• Carebara rothneyi (Forel, 1902)
• Carebara rugata (Forel, 1913)
• Carebara sakamotoi Terayama, Lin & Eguchi, 2012
• Carebara sangi (Eguchi & Bui, 2007)
• Carebara santschii (Weber, 1943)
• Carebara sarasinorum (Emery, 1901)
• Carebara sarita (Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
• Carebara satana (Karavaiev, 1935)
• Carebara sauteri (Forel, 1912)
• Carebara semilaevis (Mayr, 1901)
• Carebara sicheli Mayr, 1862
• Carebara silvestrii (Santschi, 1914)
• Carebara simalurensis (Forel, 1915)
• Carebara similis (Mayr, 1862)
• Carebara sinhala Fischer, Azorsa & Fisher, 2014
• Carebara sodalis (Emery, 1914)
• †Carebara sophiae (Emery, 1891)
• Carebara spinata Bharti & Kumar, 2013
• Carebara stenoptera (Kusnezov, 1952)
• Carebara striata (Xu, 2003)
• Carebara sublatro (Forel, 1913)
• Carebara subreptor (Emery, 1900)
• Carebara sudanensis (Weber, 1943)
• Carebara sudanica Santschi, 1933
• Carebara sundaica (Forel, 1913)
• Carebara tahitiensis (Wheeler, 1936)
• Carebara taiponica (Wheeler, 1928)
• Carebara taprobanae (Forel, 1911)
• Carebara tenua Fernández, 2004
• Carebara termitolestes (Wheeler, 1918)
• Carebara thoracica (Weber, 1950)
• †Carebara thorali (Théobald, 1937)
• Carebara traegaordhi (Santschi, 1914)
• †Carebara ucrainica (Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002)
• Carebara ugandana (Santschi, 1923)
• Carebara urichi (Wheeler, 1922)
• Carebara vidua Smith, 1858
• Carebara viehmeyeri (Mann, 1919)
• Carebara villiersi (Bernard, 1953)
• Carebara voeltzkowi (Forel, 1907)
• Carebara vorax (Santschi, 1914)
• Carebara weyeri (Karavaiev, 1930)
• Carebara wheeleri (Ettershank, 1966)
• Carebara wroughtonii (Forel, 1902)
• Carebara yamatonis (Terayama, 1996)

References

• This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under a copyright license that allows anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the materials in any form for any purpose: Aldawood, A.; Sharaf, M.; Taylor, B. (2011). "First record of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia with description of a new species, C. abuhurayri sp. n." ZooKeys (92): 61–69. Bibcode:2011ZooK...92...61A. doi:10.3897/zookeys.92.770. PMC 3084545. PMID 21594112. Please check the source for the exact licensing terms.

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