Camponotus innexus

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Camponotus innexus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. innexus
Binomial name
Camponotus innexus
Forel, 1902

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -29.85861° to -43.42854051°.

   
North
Temperate
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Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code casent0280178. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0280179. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0280180. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.
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Syntype of Camponotus innexusWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910387. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Camponotus innexusWorker. Specimen code casent0910388. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • innexus. Camponotus innexus Forel, 1902h: 499 (s.w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
    • Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 218 (l.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmepomis): Forel, 1914a: 273;
    • combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1920b: 257; Santschi, 1928e: 482.
    • Status as species: Forel, 1907a: 34; Emery, 1925b: 111; Clark, 1929: 123; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 115; Taylor, 1987a: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 105; McArthur, 2007a: 322; McArthur, 2010: 96; McArthur, 2014: 152.

Type Material

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker major. Length 6.5 to 9 mm. Mandibles short, armed with 6 teeth, the outer border strongly curved, silky, striated, reticulate punctate towards the base. The clypeus without a lobe, without a keel, quite flat, strongly indented in the middle of the anterior border (as in C. marginatus). Frontal area small. Frontal ridges sinuous, strongly diverging. The sides of the clypeus diverge at the front. The head is trapezoidal, quite strongly widened and strongly indented at the back, scarcely longer than its posterior width. The eyes behind the middle. Scapes pass over the occiput by 1/4 to 1/3 of their length. Pronotum depressed, weakly convex, edged in an arc at the front and the anterior part of the sides which make the shoulders very rounded; wider than long. Mesonotum slightly convex, narrow behind, scarcely sub bordered. Basal face of the metanotum (= propodeum) long, narrow, lower at the back, weakly but distinctly concave or in a saddle (much less than ephippium). The declivity is much shorter than the basal face. The node is very thick, as thick at the top as at the bottom, flat at the back, convex in front, quite elevated with the summit convex in all directions. Tibias, cylindrical but slightly channeled, with a range of very short and oblique spines. Very finely and densely reticulate (reticulate-punctate) sub opaque, front of head matte. Gaster with microscopic striations transverse and silky. Pilosity erect, fine, pale yellow, sparse on body, more abundant on the front of the head, distinct on the scapes, none on the tibias. Pubescence extremely short, fine and sparse. Of a yellow rusty red; head and gaster black. Antennae, tarses, and part of the tibias brown. The posterior edges of the segments of the gaster vivid yellow.

Worker minor. Head scarcely longer than wide, strongly wider at the back, posterior border almost straight. Clypeus a little more projecting as a rounded lobe but also indented in the middle like the major worker. The scape exceeds the head by 2/5 of its length. Pronotum even more edged and more shouldered than the major worker; mesonotum strongly sub bordered, and its anterior border exceeds by a little the level of the pronotum. In profile the basal face of the metanotum is subrectalinear, without a distinct concavity. In other respects like the major.

Bong-Bong, NSW (Froggatt)

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Heterick B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76: 1-206. 
  • McArthur A. 2010. A guide to Camponotus ants of South Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, IV + 121 pp.