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Camponotus aethiops cachmiriensis
| Camponotus aethiops cachmiriensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. aethiops |
| Subspecies: | C. aethiops cachmiriensis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Camponotus aethiops cachmiriensis Emery, 1925 | |
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- cachmiriensis. Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) aethiops var. cachmiriensis Emery, 1925b: 97.
- [First available use of Camponotus maculatus r. aethiops var. cachmiriensis Forel, 1904c: 29 (s.w.m.) INDIA (Jammu & Kashmir); unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: India: Kashmir, Sind Valley, 2438 m. (R.C. Wroughton).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1906b: 84; Emery, 1920c: 7; Weber, 1943c: 342 (in list).
- Subspecies of aethiops: Menozzi, 1939a: 319 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 90; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 23.
- Distribution: India.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 90, catalogue)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 97, soldier, worker, male described)
- Forel, A. 1904d. Miscellanea myrmécologiques. Rev. Suisse Zool. 12: 1-52 (page 29, First available use of Camponotus maculatus r. aethiops var. cachmiriensis; unavailable name.)
- Subedi, I.P., Budha, P.B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L. 2020. An updated checklist of Nepalese ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1006, 99–136 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1006.58808).