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Camponotus aeneopilosus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. aeneopilosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus aeneopilosus Mayr, 1862
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -16.81666756° to -36.18805°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).
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 casent0280172. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection. |
   
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0906929. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMUK, London, UK. |
   
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| Syntype of Camponotus aeneopilosus flavidopubescens. Worker. Specimen code casent0910363. Photographer Will Ericson, 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.
- aeneopilosus. Camponotus aeneopilosus Mayr, 1862: 665 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
- Type-material: holotype (?) worker.
- [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
- Type-locality: Australia: Sydney (Novara Expd.) (sent by R. von Frauenfeld).
- Type-depository: NHMW.
- Mayr, 1865: 34 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1953e: 195 (l.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmosericus): Forel, 1914a: 268;
- combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 706; Santschi, 1928e: 482.
- Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 4; Mayr, 1863: 397; Mayr, 1865: 34 (redescription); Mayr, 1876: 60 (in key); Forel, 1886f: 173; Dalla Torre, 1893: 220; Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Forel, 1902h: 503; Forel, 1907a: 34; Forel, 1910b: 74; Stitz, 1911a: 372; Emery, 1914b: 181; Forel, 1915b: 106; Emery, 1925b: 110; Clark, 1934c: 71; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 110; Taylor, 1987a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 84; McArthur, 2007a: 324; McArthur, 2010: 90; McArthur, 2014: 142.
- Distribution: Australia.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus flavidopubescens.
Type Material
- Syntype, 5 workers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
- Syntype, many workers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker 10mm long. Very similar to C. aethiops but with a strong brass-yellow pubescence on the upper side of the gaster; the clypeus is S shaped in the middle of its posterior margin; the mandibles black.
Brought back from Sidney (= Sydney) with the Novarae expedition.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 84, catalogue)
- Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 268, combination in C. (Myrmosericus))
- Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
- Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
- Hoffmann, B., Eldridge, J., Marston, C. 2023. The first eradication of an exotic ant species from the entirety of Australia: Pheidole fervens. Management of Biological Invasions, 14(4), 619–624 (doi:10.3391/mbi.2023.14.4.03).
- Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 12: 649-776 (page 665, worker described)
- Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. (page 34, queen described)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1953e. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae. Part II. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 46: 175-217 (page 195, larva described)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922i. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 631-710 (page 706, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Emery C. 1914. Formiche d'Australia e di Samoa raccolte dal Prof. Silvestri nel 1913. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8: 179-186.
- Heatwole H., S. Tremont, and E. Broese. 2013. Point-diversity, a critical tool for assessing dynamics of guilds of scavenging ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): an example from a eucalypt woodland. Systematics and Biodiversity 11(2): 149180.
- McArthur A. 2010. A guide to Camponotus ants of South Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, IV + 121 pp.
- Osunkoya O. O., C. Polo, and A. N. Andersen. 2011. Invasion impacts on biodiversity: response of ant communities to infestation by cat's claw creeper vine, Macfadyena unguis-cati (Bignoniaceae) in subtropical Australia. Biol. Invasions 13: 2289-2302.
- Stitz H. 1911. Australische Ameisen. (Neu-Guinea und Salomons-Inseln, Festland, Neu-Seeland). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1911: 351-381.