Camponotus barbaricus

Camponotus barbaricus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. barbaricus
Binomial name
	Camponotus barbaricus; Emery, 1905 Specimen Labels
Subspecies
	Camponotus barbaricus eubarbaricus Cagniant, 1970; Camponotus barbaricus xanthomelas Emery, 1905;
Synonyms
	Camponotus barbaricus baetica Emery, 1924;

Photo Gallery

Worker. Photo by Michal Kukla.
Queen. Photo by Michal Kukla.
Worker. Photo by Michal Kukla.
Queen. Photo by Michal Kukla.

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 41.981796° to 32.249974°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Gibraltar (type locality), Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain.

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.

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.

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

barbaricus. Camponotus maculatus subsp. barbaricus Emery, 1905d: 31 (s.w.) GIBRALTAR, SPAIN.
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: Gibraltar: (no collector’s name), Spain: Siviglia (= Seville) (no collector’s name).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- [Misspelled as barbarus by Santschi, 1921d: 72.]
- Emery, 1908a: 197 (q.); Baroni Urbani, 1976: 217 (m.); Athias-Henriot, 1947: 249 (l.); Baroni Urbani, 1968b: 483 (l.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Santschi, 1923f: 335;
- combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 100.
- Subspecies of maculatus: Forel, 1905b: 177; Forel, 1907a: 31; Forel, 1907e: 16; Emery, 1908a: 197; Karavaiev, 1912a: 21; Emery, 1916b: 224; Stitz, 1917: 352.
- Subspecies of sylvaticus: Emery, 1920c: 7; Menozzi, 1922a: 355; Santschi, 1921d: 72; Santschi, 1923f: 335; Emery, 1924a: 8; Emery, 1925b: 100; Finzi, 1930b: 16; Santschi, 1931a: 11; Santschi, 1936c: 207; Santschi, 1939c: 4; Menozzi, 1940: 270; Finzi, 1940: 163; Bernard, 1945: 136; Athias-Henriot, 1947: 249; Ceballos, 1956: 314; Cagniant, 1964: 109; Cagniant, 1966b: 280.
- Status as species: Baroni Urbani, 1964b: 61; Baroni Urbani, 1968b: 482; Cagniant, 1968a: 145; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 83; Cagniant, 1970c: 30; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 183; Baroni Urbani, 1976: 216; Collingwood, 1978: 91 (in key); Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 437; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 284 (in key); De Haro & Collingwood, 1994: 102; Bolton, 1995b: 88; Mei, 1995: 767; Poldi, et al. 1995: 7; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 24 (in key); Petrov, 2006: 109 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 27 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 152; Arcos, Chavez, et al. 2022: 10.
- Senior synonym of baetica: Collingwood, 1978: 72; Bolton, 1995b: 88.
- Distribution: Algeria, Gibraltar, Italy (Sicily), Libya, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia.
- [Note: distribution from Borowiec, L. 2014: 27.]
- Current subspecies: nominal plus eubarbaricus, xanthomelas.
baetica. Camponotus barbaricus var. baetica Emery, 1924c: 170.
- [First available use of Camponotus maculatus subsp. barbaricus var. baeticus Emery, 1908a: 197 (s.w.q.) GIBRALTAR, SPAIN; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Bolton, 1995b: 87).]
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: Gibraltar (no further data), Spain: Seville (no collector’s name).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- [Misspelled as boeticus by Santschi, 1931a: 11; Santschi, 1939c: 4.]
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1920c: 7; Emery, 1925b: 100; Santschi, 1931a: 11; Santschi, 1939c: 4.
- Junior synonym of barbaricus: Collingwood, 1978: 72; Bolton, 1995b: 87.
- bahai. Camponotus stercorarius r. bahai Hashmi, 1973: 85. Nomen nudum.

Description

References

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