''Carebara'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
ant
Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...
s in the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...
Myrmicinae
Myrmicinae is a subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily ...
. It is one of the largest myrmicine genera with more than 200 species distributed worldwide in the
tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the equator, where the sun may shine directly overhead. This contrasts with the temperate or polar regions of Earth, where the Sun can never be directly overhead. This is because of Earth's ax ...
and the
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...
region. Many of them are very tiny cryptic soil and
leaf-litter
Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall, or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that has fallen to the ground. This detritus or dead organic material and its constituent ...
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
Termites are a group of detritivore, detritophagous Eusociality, eusocial cockroaches which consume a variety of Detritus, decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, Plant litter, leaf litter, and Humus, soil humus. They are dist ...
nests. Little is known about the biology of the genus, but they are notable for the vast difference in size between queens and workers.
Species
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Carebara aborensis''
(Wheeler, 1913)
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Carebara abuhurayri''
Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011
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Carebara acuta''
(Weber, 1952)
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Carebara acutispina''
(Xu, 2003)
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Carebara affinis''
(Jerdon, 1851)
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Carebara afghana''
(Pisarski, 1970)
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Carebara africana''
(Forel, 1910)
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Carebara alluaudi''
(Santschi, 1913)
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Carebara alperti''
Fernández, 2010
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Carebara alpha
''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- ...
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(Forel, 1905)
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Carebara altinoda''
(Xu, 2003)
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Carebara amia''
(Forel, 1913)
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Carebara ampla
''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-l ...
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Santschi, 1912
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Carebara angolensis
''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- ...
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(Santschi, 1914)
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Carebara angulata
''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- ...
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Fernández, 2004
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Carebara anophthalma
''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- ...
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(Emery, 1906)
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Carebara antiqua
''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- ...
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(Mayr, 1868)
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Carebara arabara
''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- ...
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Fernández, 2010
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Carebara arabica
''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- ...
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(Collingwood & Van Harten, 2001)
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Carebara armata
''Carebara armata'' is a species of ant from the subfamily Myrmicinae. The scientific name of this species was first published in 1948 by Horace Donisthorpe
Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe (17 March 1870 – 22 April 1951) was an eccentric ...
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(Donisthorpe, 1948)
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Carebara arnoldi
''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- ...
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(Forel, 1913)
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Carebara arnoldiella
''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- ...
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(Santschi, 1919)
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Carebara asina
''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- ...
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(Forel, 1902)
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Carebara atoma''
(Emery, 1900)
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Carebara audita''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara bartrumi''
Weber, 1943
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Carebara bengalensis''
(Forel, 1902)
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Carebara beta''
(Forel, 1905)
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Carebara bicarinata''
Santschi, 1912
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Carebara bihornata''
(Xu, 2003)
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Carebara bohemica''
(Novák, 1877)
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Carebara borealis''
(Terayama, 1996)
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Carebara bouvardi''
(Santschi, 1913)
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Carebara brasiliana''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara brevipilosa''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara bruchi''
(Santschi, 1933)
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Carebara bruni''
(Forel, 1913)
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Carebara butteli''
(Forel, 1913)
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Carebara capreola''
(Wheeler, 1927)
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Carebara carinata''
Bharti & Kumar, 2013
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Carebara castanea''
Smith, 1858
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Carebara coeca''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara concinna''
(Mayr, 1867)
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Carebara convexa''
(Weber, 1950)
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Carebara coqueta''
Fernández, 2006
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Carebara cornigera''
(Forel, 1902)
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Carebara crassiuscula''
(Emery, 1900)
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Carebara cribriceps''
(Wheeler, 1927)
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Carebara crigensis''
(Belshaw & Bolton, 1994)
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Carebara curvispina''
(Xu, 2003)
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Carebara debilis''
(Santschi, 1913)
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Carebara dentata''
Bharti & Kumar, 2013
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Carebara deponens''
(Walker, 1859)
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Carebara diabola''
(Santschi, 1913)
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Carebara diabolica''
(Baroni Urbani, 1969)
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Carebara distincta''
(Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
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Carebara diversa
''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- ...
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(Jerdon, 1851)
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Carebara donisthorpei''
(Weber, 1950)
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Carebara elmenteitae''
(Patrizi, 1948)
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Carebara elongata''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara erythraea''
(Emery, 1915)
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Carebara escherichi''
(Forel, 1911)
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Carebara fayrouzae
''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-l ...
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Sharaf, 2013
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Carebara frontalis''
(Weber, 1950)
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Carebara globularia''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara grandidieri''
(Forel, 1891)
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Carebara guineana''
Fernández, 2006
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Carebara hannya''
(Terayama, 1996)
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Carebara hornata''
Bharti & Kumar, 2013
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Carebara hunanensis
''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-l ...
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(Wu & Wang, 1995)
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Carebara inca''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara incerta''
(Santschi, 1919)
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Carebara incierta''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara infima''
(Santschi, 1913)
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Carebara intermedia''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara jacobsoni''
(Forel, 1911)
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Carebara jeanneli''
(Santschi, 1913)
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Carebara jiangxiensis''
(Wu & Wang, 1995)
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Carebara junodi''
Forel, 1904
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Carebara khamiensis''
(Arnold, 1952)
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Carebara kofana''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara lamellifrons''
(Forel, 1902)
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Carebara langi''
Wheeler, 1922
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Carebara latro''
(Santschi, 1937)
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Carebara leei''
(Forel, 1902)
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Carebara lignata''
Westwood, 1840
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Carebara longiceps
''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-l ...
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(Santschi, 1929)
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Carebara longii''
(Wheeler, 1903)
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Carebara lucida''
(Santschi, 1917)
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Carebara lusciosa''
(Wheeler, 1928)
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Carebara majeri''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara manni''
(Donisthorpe, 1941)
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Carebara mayri''
(Forel, 1901)
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Carebara menozzii''
(Ettershank, 1966)
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Carebara minima''
(Emery, 1900)
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Carebara minuta''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara mjobergi''
(Forel, 1915)
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Carebara nana''
(Santschi, 1919)
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Carebara nayana''
(Sheela & Narendran, 1997)
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Carebara nitida''
(Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002)
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Carebara norfolkensis''
(Donisthorpe, 1941)
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Carebara nosindambo''
(Forel, 1891)
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Carebara nuda''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara obtusidenta''
(Xu, 2003)
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Carebara octata''
(Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
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Carebara oertzeni''
(Forel, 1886)
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Carebara oni''
(Terayama, 1996)
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Carebara osborni''
Wheeler, 1922
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Carebara overbecki''
(Viehmeyer, 1916)
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Carebara paeta
''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-l ...
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(Santschi, 1937)
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Carebara panamensis''
(Wheeler, 1925)
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Carebara patrizii''
Menozzi, 1927
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Carebara paya
''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-l ...
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Fernández, 2004
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Carebara perpusilla''
(Emery, 1895)
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Carebara peruviana''
(Emery, 1906)
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Carebara petulca''
(Wheeler, 1922)
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Carebara pilosa''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara pisinna''
(Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
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Carebara polita''
(Santschi, 1914)
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Carebara polyphemus''
(Wheeler, 1928)
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Carebara propomegata''
Bharti & Kumar, 2013
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Carebara pseudolusciosa''
(Wu & Wang, 1995)
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Carebara punctata''
(Karavaiev, 1931)
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Carebara qianliyan''
Terayama, 2009
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Carebara raja''
(Forel, 1902)
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Carebara rara''
(Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
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Carebara rectangulata''
Bharti & Kumar, 2013
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Carebara rectidorsa''
(Xu, 2003)
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Carebara reina''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara reticapita''
(Xu, 2003)
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Carebara reticulata
''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-l ...
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Fernández, 2004
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Carebara robertsoni''
(Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
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Carebara rothneyi''
(Forel, 1902)
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Carebara rugata''
(Forel, 1913)
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Carebara sakamotoi
''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-l ...
''
Terayama, Lin & Eguchi, 2012
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Carebara sangi''
(Eguchi & Bui, 2007)
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Carebara santschii''
(Weber, 1943)
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Carebara sarasinorum''
(Emery, 1901)
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Carebara sarita''
(Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
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Carebara satana''
(Karavaiev, 1935)
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Carebara sauteri''
(Forel, 1912)
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Carebara semilaevis''
(Mayr, 1901)
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Carebara sicheli''
Mayr, 1862
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Carebara silvestrii''
(Santschi, 1914)
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Carebara simalurensis''
(Forel, 1915)
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Carebara similis''
(Mayr, 1862)
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Carebara sinhala''
Fischer, Azorsa & Fisher, 2014
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Carebara sodalis''
(Emery, 1914)
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Carebara sophiae''
(Emery, 1891)
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Carebara spinata''
Bharti & Kumar, 2013
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Carebara stenoptera''
(Kusnezov, 1952)
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Carebara striata''
(Xu, 2003)
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Carebara sublatro''
(Forel, 1913)
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Carebara subreptor''
(Emery, 1900)
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Carebara sudanensis''
(Weber, 1943)
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Carebara sudanica''
Santschi, 1933
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Carebara sundaica''
(Forel, 1913)
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Carebara tahitiensis''
(Wheeler, 1936)
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Carebara taiponica''
(Wheeler, 1928)
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Carebara taprobanae''
(Forel, 1911)
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Carebara tenua''
Fernández, 2004
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Carebara termitolestes''
(Wheeler, 1918)
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Carebara thoracica''
(Weber, 1950)
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Carebara thorali''
(Théobald, 1937)
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Carebara traegaordhi''
(Santschi, 1914)
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Carebara ucrainica''
(Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002)
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Carebara ugandana''
(Santschi, 1923)
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Carebara urichi''
(Wheeler, 1922)
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Carebara vidua''
Smith, 1858
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Carebara viehmeyeri''
(Mann, 1919)
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Carebara villiersi''
(Bernard, 1953)
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Carebara voeltzkowi''
(Forel, 1907)
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Carebara vorax''
(Santschi, 1914)
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Carebara weyeri
''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-l ...
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(Karavaiev, 1930)
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Carebara wheeleri''
(Ettershank, 1966)
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Carebara wroughtonii''
(Forel, 1902)
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Carebara yamatonis''
(Terayama, 1996)
References
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Myrmicinae
Ant genera