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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines.
Oriental Region: India, Sri Lanka (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.
- barbatus. Camponotus barbatus Roger, 1863a: 138 (w.q.) SRI LANKA.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (J. Nietner).
- Type-depository: unknown.
- [Note: Roger type-material is principally in DEIB, MNHN, MNHU, ZSBS.]
- Emery, 1901f: 121 (s.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1914a: 267;
- combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 92.
- Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 3; Mayr, 1863: 458; Smith, F. 1871a: 306; Forel, 1892j: 233; Dalla Torre, 1893: 222; Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Emery, 1901f: 121; Bingham, 1903: 362; Forel, 1914a: 267; Emery, 1925b: 92; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 243; Bolton, 1995b: 88; Tiwari, 1999: 71; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 48; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 36; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 23; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 30.
- Distribution: India, Sri Lanka.
- [Note: Baltazar, 1966: 273, cites barbatus Roger as Philippines, in error for barbatus Menozzi.]
- Current subspecies: nominal plus infuscoides, samarus, taylori.
Description
References
- Baltazar, C.R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758-1963). Pacific Insects Monographs 8: 1-488. (page 273, listed)
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1972. Studi sui Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel 82: 122-135 (page 362, replacement name: barbosus)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 88, catalogue)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 88, catalogue)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 88, catalogue)
- Dendup, K.C., Dorji, C., Dhadwal, T., Bharti, H., Pfeiffer, M. 2021. A preliminary checklist of ants from Bhutan. Asian Myrmecology 14, e014005 (doi:10.20362/am.014005).
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- Donisthorpe, H. 1941f. Glanures myrmecologiques. [concl.]. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 53: 36-38 (page 38, replacement name: barbiger Donisthorpe)
- Emery, C. 1901h. Ameisen gesammelt in Ceylon von Dr. W. Horn 1899. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1901: 113-122 (page 121, soldier described)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 92, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))
- Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 267, combination in C. Myrmoturba))
- Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
- Menozzi, C. 1926e [1925]. Nuove formiche delle isole Filippine e di Singapore. Atti Soc. Nat. Mat. Modena 56[=(6)4 4: 92-103 (page 94, queen described)
- Roger, J. 1863a. Die neu aufgeführten Gattungen und Arten meines Formiciden-Verzeichnisses nebst Ergänzung einiger früher gegebenen Beschreibungen. Berl. Entomol. Z. 7: 131-214 (page 138, worker, queen described)
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- Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
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- Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
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