List of Chinese insects Vol. Taxonomy of the ant genus. Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. The habitat of this species consists of soil and rock crevices. Hita Garcia, Wiesel and Fischer (2013) - The taxonomy of the genus has seen great improvements on both generic and regional levels during the last decade (Fernndez, 2004, 2006, 2010). Intorno alla classificazione dei Myrmicinae. (Japanese Ant Image Database). Burmese ants collected by Professor G. E. Gates. Anatomy and evolution of the head of, Brassard, F., Leong, C.-M., Chan, H.-H., Gunard, B. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 40, 703706, Sinu P.A., Nasser, M., Rajan, P.D. 2016. Description Note: Worldwide Shipping (We will pack your ant colony with Care & Love but we don't take responsibility for death) Queen: 18-22 mm Worker: 3-5 mm Food: Sweet/insects Humidity: 40 - 80 % Temp: 20 - 28 C Easy keeping Proceedings The 7 th National Science Research Conference. In their natural environment the humidity is high at night at around 70 - 90% depending on the season, and low during daylight hours when it can fall to 40 - 50%. 9,90 incl. sesame, amaranthus or millet, nuts, also tuna in oil, biscuits and ricecrisps, fruits like grapes or apples, nest in soil, using lost burrows of other animals but also excavate on their own. Sold by 1 shops (2 variations). Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. Sun Yat-sen University Press. Part VI. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63: 43-147 (page 85, see also). 2. Starting a polygyne Carebara affinis or Carebara diversa (i.e Vaudoise Sci. On a regional level, however, taxonomic treatments exist for the Arabian Peninsula (Sharaf and Aldawood 2013), Taiwan (Terayama, Lin and Eguchi 2012), India (Bharti and Kumar 2013), and Fischer et al. Chen Y., C.-W. Luo, H. W Li, Z. H. Xu, Y. J. Liu, and S. J. Zhao. Biotropica 38(4): 500-507. 1. Kota Kinabalu: Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Some species show an extreme size dimorphism between the tiny worker and the very large queen caste. The entire genus, with more than 200 species (Bolton, 2012), would benefit highly from an updated revision. It is difficult for general suppliers to maintain this species without extra care and frequently colonies are offered which are on the point of collapse before they are purchased. Emery, 1893e: 212 (q.m. I live in Hong Kong.