Camponotus capito ebeninithorax

Camponotus capito ebeninithorax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. capito
Subspecies:	C. capito ebeninithorax
Trinomial name
Camponotus capito ebeninithorax Forel, 1915

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Australian Camponotus species
• Key to Australian Camponotus majors of the southwestern Botanical Province
• Key to Australian Camponotus minors of the southwestern Botanical Province

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• ebeninithorax. Camponotus (Myrmophyma) capito var. ebeninithorax Forel, 1915b: 100 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
  • Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
  • Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales (W.W. Froggatt).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • [Misspelled as ebinithorax by McArthur, 2007a: 317, McArthur, 2010: 44; misspelled as ebenithorax by Heterick, 2009: 65.]
  • Subspecies of capito: Emery, 1925b: 110; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 110; Taylor, 1987a: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 97; McArthur, 2007a: 317; Heterick, 2009: 65; McArthur, 2010: 44; McArthur, 2014: 100.
  • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

• Camponotus (Myrmophyma) capito ebeninithorax Forel, 1915: Syntype, 1 worker (missing gaster), Australia, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker. The worker is almost the same size as the type (a little smaller) and differs in the color that is the whole body including the limbs is black; only the head is dark red.

Australia (received from Herrn Froggatt who identified it as capito)

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 97, catalogue)
• Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 100, worker d*Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
• Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).

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