Camponotus brunni

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Camponotus brunni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. brunni
Binomial name
Camponotus brunni
Forel, 1901

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Japan (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

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • brunni. Camponotus marginatus r. brunni Forel, 1901h: 70 (w.) JAPAN.
    • Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Japan: Hozuyama (no collector’s name).
    • Type-depository: unknown (perhaps MHNG).
    • [Note: type-material originated in Hamburg Museum, probably destroyed in World War II.]
    • Combination in C. (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1925b: 118.
    • Subspecies of fallax: Forel, 1911e: 294.
    • Subspecies of caryae: Wheeler, W.M. 1917c: 29; Emery, 1925b: 118; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 235; Onoyama, 1980: 201.
    • Subspecies of marginatus: Wheeler, W.M. 1906c: 327; Ruzsky, 1925b: 42.
    • Subspecies of vitiosus: Azuma, 1951: 89; Azuma, 1953: 5.
    • Status as species: Ruzsky, 1926: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 90.
    • Distribution: Japan.

Description

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 90, catalogue)
  • Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 118, combination in C. (Myrmentoma))
  • Forel, A. 1901m. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma- und Echinopla-Arten. Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hambg. 18: 43-82 (page 70, worker described)
  • Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. Kl. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Münch. 11: 249-303 (page 294, Subspecies/variety of gallax)
  • Ruzsky, M. 1925b. New data on the ant fauna of Siberia. Rus. Entomol. Obozr. 19: 41-46 (page 42, Subspecies/variety of marginatus)
  • Ruzsky, M. 1926. A systematic list of the ants found in Siberia. I. Review of the species of the genera Camponotus (s. ext.) and Formica (s. str.). Izv. Tomsk. Gos. Univ. 77: 107-111 (page 109, raised to species)
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1917c. The North American ants described by Asa Fitch. Psyche (Camb.) 24: 26-29 (page 29, Subspecies/variety of caryae)