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Camponotus abscisus
| Camponotus abscisus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. abscisus |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus abscisus Roger, 1863
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 19.47388889° to -0.6364°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (type locality), Nicaragua, Panama.
Distribution based on AntMaps
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 casent0280100. Photographer Shannon Hartman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection. |
   
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0280101. Photographer Shannon Hartman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- abscisus. Camponotus abscisus Roger, 1863a: 151 (q.) MEXICO (no state data).
- Type-material: holotype queen.
- Type-locality: Mexico: (no further data) (S. von Heyden?).
- Type-depository: unknown.
- [Note: Roger type-material is principally in DEIB, MNHN, MNHU, ZSBS.]
- Forel, 1885a: 341 (s.w.m.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1914a: 271;
- combination in C. (Myrmobrachys): Emery, 1920b: 260.
- Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 5; Mayr, 1863: 458; Forel, 1885a: 341 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 220; Emery, 1896d: 377 (in list); Forel, 1899c: 151; Emery, 1925b: 162; Borgmeier, 1927c: 156; Eidmann, 1936b: 97; Kempf, 1972a: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 83; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 255; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 751.
- Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 83, catalogue)
- Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 260, Combination in C. (Myrmobrachys))
- Forel, A. 1885a [1884]. Études myrmécologiques en 1884 avec une description des organes sensoriels des antennes. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 20: 316-380 (page 341, soldier, worker, male described)
- Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 271, Combination in C. (Myrmamblys))
- Roger, J. 1863a. Die neu aufgeführten Gattungen und Arten meines Formiciden-Verzeichnisses nebst Ergänzung einiger früher gegebenen Beschreibungen. Berl. Entomol. Z. 7: 131-214 (page 151, queen described)
- Varela-Hernández, F., Medel-Zosayas, B., Martínez-Luque, E.O., Jones, R.W., De la Mora, A. 2020. Biodiversity in central Mexico: Assessment of ants in a convergent region. Southwestern Entomologist 454: 673-686.
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
- Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
- Longino J. T. 2013. Ants of Nicargua. Consulted on 18 Jan 2013. https://sites.google.com/site/longinollama/reports/ants-of-nicaragua
- Longino J. et al. ADMAC project. Accessed on March 24th 2017 at https://sites.google.com/site/admacsite/
- Philpott, S.M. and P.F. Foster. 2005. Nest-site limitation in coffee agroecosytems: Artificial nests maintain diversity of arboreal ants. Ecological Applications 15(4):1478-1485
- Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133