Camponotus auricomus

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Camponotus auricomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. auricomus
Binomial name
Camponotus auricomus
Roger, 1862

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 20.86716667° to 19.58°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Colombia, French Guiana, Greater Antilles, Guyana, Lesser Antilles, Mexico (type locality), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.

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

Images from AntWeb

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Lectotype of Camponotus auricomus lucianusWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910680. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Paralectotype of Camponotus auricomus lucianusWorker. Specimen code casent0910681. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Lectotype of Camponotus auricomus vincentensisWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910682. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Paralectotype of Camponotus auricomus vincentensisWorker. Specimen code casent0910683. Photographer Z. Lieberman, 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.

  • auricomus. Camponotus auricomus Roger, 1862c: 283 (footnote) (w.q.) MEXICO (no state data).
    • Type-material: syntype workers, 1 (?) syntype queen (numbers not stated).
    • Type-locality: Mexico: (no further data).
    • Type-depository: MNHU.
    • Forel, 1879a: 98 (m.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmobrachys): Forel, 1914a: 270.
    • Subspecies of senex: Forel, 1879a: 97; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 251 (footnote); Emery, 1896d: 377 (in list).
    • Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 5; Mayr, 1863: 398; Mayr, 1866b: 886; Mayr, 1870a: 376 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 222; Forel, 1893g: 334; Forel, 1899c: 139; Wheeler, W.M. 1918b: 27; Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 16; Emery, 1925b: 163; Kempf, 1972a: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 87; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 255; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 753.
    • Distribution: Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Trinidad.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus lucianus, vincentensis.

Description

References

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
  • Dejean, A., S. Durou, I. Olmsted, R.R. Snelling and J. Orivel. 2003. Nest Site Selection by Ants in a Flooded Mexican Mangrove, with Special Reference to the Epiphytic Orchid Myrmecophila christinae. Journal of Tropical Ecology 19(3) :325-331
  • Dejean, A., S. Durou, I. Olmsted, R.R. Snelling and J. Orivel. 2003. Nest Site Selection by Ants in a Flooded Mexican Mangrove, with Special Reference to the Epiphytic Orchid Myrmecophila christinae. Journal of Tropical Ecology 19(3):325-331
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • Franco W., N. Ladino, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Dejean, J. Orivel, M. Fichaux, S. Groc, M. Leponce, and R. M. Feitosa. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Wheeler W. M. 1922. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45: 1-16.