Camponotus zoc

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Camponotus zoc
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. zoc
Binomial name
Camponotus zoc
Forel, 1879

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 19.598888° to 8.48017°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Colombia, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela (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

Nomenclature

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

  • zoc. Camponotus senex st. zoc Forel, 1879a: 100 (s.w.) VENEZUELA.
    • Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1953e: 195 (l.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmobrachys): Forel, 1914a: 271.
    • Subspecies of senex: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 251 (footnote); Emery, 1896d: 377 (in list).
    • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 257; Forel, 1899c: 142 (footnote); Forel, 1900e: 285; Forel, 1901h: 74; Forel, 1902b: 171; Wheeler, W.M. 1905b: 135; Wheeler, W.M. 1916d: 330; Wheeler, W.M. 1921f: 167; Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 16; Emery, 1925b: 165; Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 259; Kempf, 1972a: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 130; Bezděčková, et al. 2015: 114.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • Forel A. 1902. Quatre notices myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 170-182.
  • Franco W., N. Ladino, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Dejean, J. Orivel, M. Fichaux, S. Groc, M. Leponce, and R. M. Feitosa. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543.
  • Gove, A. D., J. D. Majer, and V. Rico-Gray. 2009. Ant assemblages in isolated trees are more sensitive to species loss and replacement than their woodland counterparts. Basic and Applied Ecology 10: 187-195.
  • INBio Collection (via Gbif)
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Wheeler W. M. 1905. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21: 79-135.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1922. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45: 1-16.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262.