Calomyrmex laevissimus

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Calomyrmex laevissimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Calomyrmex
Species: C. laevissimus
Binomial name
Calomyrmex laevissimus
(Smith, F., 1859)

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 0.789388° to -10.03332996°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (type locality), New Guinea.

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

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. Owned by Museum of Comparative Zoology.


Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code casent0249961. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.
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Holotype of Calomyrmex laevissimusWorker. Specimen code casent0901889. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by OUM, Oxford, UK.

Nomenclature

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

  • laevissimus. Formica laevissima Smith, F. 1859a: 138 (w.) INDONESIA (Aru Is).
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • [Note: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 452, cites 1w OXUM; (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978.]
    • Type-locality: Indonesia: Aru Is., “Aru 28” (A.R. Wallace).
    • Type-depository: OXUM.
    • [Misspelled as levissima by Roger, 1863b: 10, Dalla Torre, 1893: 238, and others.]
    • Mayr, 1897: 435 (q.).
    • Combination in Colobopsis: Roger, 1863b: 10;
    • combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1867a: 39;
    • combination in Camponotus (Calomyrmex): Mayr, 1897: 435;
    • combination in Calomyrmex: Emery, 1895j: 772.
    • Status as species: Smith, F. 1860b: 94; Smith, F. 1863: 13; Mayr, 1863: 416; Roger, 1863b: 10; Mayr, 1867a: 39 (redescription); Smith, F. 1871a: 307; Mayr, 1886c: 361; Emery, 1887a: 221; Dalla Torre, 1893: 238; Emery, 1896d: 378 (in list); Mayr, 1897: 435; Viehmeyer, 1912: 8; Viehmeyer, 1913: 147; Viehmeyer, 1914c: 532; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 105; Emery, 1925b: 175; Karavaiev, 1929c: 244; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 452; Donisthorpe, 1943d: 459; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 220; Bolton, 1995b: 83.
    • Distribution: Indonesia (Aru, Irian Jaya, Sulawesi, Waigeu), Papua New Guinea.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus trochanteralis.

The following notes on F. Smith type specimens have been provided by Barry Bolton (details):

Formica laevissima

Holotype worker in Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Labelled “Aru 28.” Also present in Oxford University Museum of Natural History are two workers from “Wag.” and one each from “Gil. S” and “Bac.”

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • CSIRO Collection
  • Donisthorpe, Horace. 1943. The Ants of Waigeu Island, North Dutch New Guinea. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 (10): 433-475.
  • Emery C. 1886. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna 5: 363-382
  • Emery C. 1887. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia. [part]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 24(4): 209-258.
  • Emery, C. "Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia." Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova) (2) 4, no. 24 (1887): 209-258.
  • Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
  • Smith F. 1863. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Mysol, Ceram, Waigiou, Bouru and Timor. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 7: 6-48.
  • Smith, Fr. "Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Bachian, Kaisaa, Amboyna, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea." Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 5 (1860): 93-143.
  • Snelling R. R. 1998. Insect Part 1: The social Hymenoptera. In Mack A. L. (Ed.) A Biological Assessment of the Lakekamu Basin, Papua New Guinea, RAP 9. 189 ppages
  • Viehmeyer H. 1912. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14: 1-26.
  • Viehmeyer H. 1913. Ameisen aus dem Kopal von Celebes. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 74: 141-155.
  • Viehmeyer H. 1914. Papuanische Ameisen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914: 515-535.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1919. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147.
  • Wilson E. O. 1959. Some ecological characteristics of ants in New Guinea rain forests. Ecology 40: 437-447.