Camponotus atlantis

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Camponotus atlantis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. atlantis
Binomial name
Camponotus atlantis
Forel, 1890

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Sharaf et al. (2017) report that in Yemen colonies of Camponotus atlantis are commonly found under rocks next to and under Acacia trees.

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Camponotus atlantis was described from Tunisia and has been recorded from several countries in the Arabian Peninsula including KSA (Collingwood 1985), Oman and Yemen (Collingwood and Agosti 1996), and Socotra (Collingwood et al. 2004, Sharaf et al., 2017).

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 36.833333° to 12.4°.

     
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Socotra Archipelago, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
Palaearctic Region: Canary Islands, Iran, Oman, Tunisia (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

Sharaf et al (2018) - Oman: Many workers of this species were found foraging under a pomegranate tree, Punica granatum L. (Lythraceae). Nest series were also found under rocks where the soil was dry and loose and under a rock at a date palm plantation.

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • atlantis. Camponotus rubripes r. atlantis Forel, 1890a: lxiii (s.w.q.) TUNISIA, ALGERIA.
    • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
    • Type-localities: Tunisia: hill nr Tébourba, 26.iii.-23.iv.1889 (A. Forel), Algeria: Mt summit, S Souk Ahras, 1600 m., 26.iii.-23.iv.1889 (A. Forel), Algeria: Djebel Ozmor, S Tebessa, 26.iii.-23.iv.1889 (A. Forel).
    • [Note: these three localities are specifically named by Forel, but he says this taxon is “On all the hills and mountains of the mountainous part of Tunisia and eastern Algeria.”]
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Cagniant, 1966d: 970 (m.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1914a: 266;
    • combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 91.
    • Subspecies of hemipsilus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 233.
    • Subspecies of maculatus: Emery, 1891b: 20; Forel, 1894d: 4; Emery, 1896d: 370 (in list); Forel, 1904c: 12; Emery, 1908a: 201; Forel, 1909e: 375; Karavaiev, 1912a: 22; Forel, 1914a: 266.
    • Subspecies of pallens: Emery, 1920c: 7.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1920b: 255; Emery, 1925b: 91; Wheeler, W.M. 1927g: 115; Donisthorpe, 1927a: 9; Santschi, 1929c: 103; Santschi, 1929e: 158; Finzi, 1930b: 16; Santschi, 1931a: 11; Santschi, 1934f: 171; Santschi, 1936c: 207; Santschi, 1939c: 5; Menozzi, 1940: 271; Délye, 1960: 265; Cagniant, 1964: 91; Cagniant, 1966b: 280; Cagniant, 1966d: 970; Cagniant, 1968a: 145; Cagniant, 1970c: 34; Collingwood, 1985: 278; Bolton, 1995b: 86; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 372; Cagniant, 1996b: 97; Collingwood, et al. 2004: 489; Cagniant, 2006a: 194; Paknia, et al. 2008: 153; Collingwood, et al. 2011: 448; Borowiec, L. 2014: 27 (see note in bibliography); Sharaf, Fisher, et al. 2017: 9; Sharaf, Fisher, et al. 2018: 4.
    • Distribution: Algeria, Iran, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Spain (Canary Is), Tunisia, Unites Arab Emirates, Yemen.
    • [Note: distribution based on Borowiec, L. 2014: 27.]
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus atrioris, maroccanus, nigrovarius.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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