Camponotus bedoti

Camponotus bedoti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. bedoti
Binomial name
Camponotus bedoti Emery, 1893 Specimen Labels

Heterick & Kitching (2022) collected this species in both a pitfall trap and ground malaise trap within a lowland dipterocarp forest in Brunei.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 12.550629° to -11.667°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia (type locality), Krakatau Islands, Malaysia, New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands.
Palaearctic Region: China.

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

Photo © Vladimir Zryanin

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Camponotus bedoti. Worker. Specimen code casent0905458. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

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

• bedoti. Camponotus bedoti Emery, 1893e: 196, pl. 8, fig. 2 (w.) INDONESIA (Bacan, Ternate, Sula, Morotai), BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
  • Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
  • Type-localities: Indonesia: Batjan I. (= Bacan I.) (M. Bedot & C. Pictet), Indonesia: Ternate I. (M. Bedot & C. Pictet), Indonesia: Sula I. (no collector’s name), Indonesia: Morty I. (= Morotai I.) (no collector’s name), Malaysia: Sarawak (M. Bedot & C. Pictet).
  • [Note: Emery, 1893e: 196 (footnote), comments that he believes the specimens from Sula and Morotai are residues from the collections of A.R. Wallace.]
  • Type-depository: MSNG.
  • Viehmeyer, 1916a: 157 (s.); Karavaiev, 1929c: 240 (q.).
  • Combination in C. (Myrmotemnus): Emery, 1920b: 258;
  • combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1914a: 271; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 988.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1896d: 374 (in list).
  • Subspecies of reticulatus: Forel, 1895e: 455 (in text); Forel, 1901b: 27; Dahl, 1901: 18 (in key); Forel, 1907a: 31; Forel, 1909d: 229; Emery, 1911b: 532; Forel, 1912n: 67; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 157; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 111; Mann, 1919: 369; Stitz, 1925: 126; Emery, 1925b: 139; Santschi, 1928h: 133; Karavaiev, 1929c: 239; Karavaiev, 1930a: 213; Stärcke, 1930: 379; Karavaiev, 1933a: 320; Wheeler, W.M. 1934a: 179; Stitz, 1934: 5; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 40; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 233.
  • Status as species: Emery, 1900d: 707; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 157; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 988; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 253; Wheeler, W.M. 1937a: 24; Wang, C., Xiao & Wu, 1989a: 222 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 88; Clouse, 2007b: 214; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 36; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 66; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 27; McArthur, 2012: 94; Sarnat, et al. 2013: 69; Wang, W.Y., Soh, et al. 2022: 37.
  • Distribution: China, Indonesia (Ambon, Aru, Bacan, Buru, Java, Krakatau, Mentawei, Morotai, Sebesi, Sertung, Sula, Sumatra, Ternate), Malaysia (Sarawak), Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Is.

References

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• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 139, subspecies of reticulatus)
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