Camponotus chapini ganzii

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Camponotus chapini ganzii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. chapini
Subspecies: C. chapini ganzii
Trinomial name
Camponotus chapini ganzii
Weber, 1943

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 5.4° to 5.4°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Sudan (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.

  • ganzii. Camponotus (Myrmamblys) chapini subsp. ganzii Weber, 1943c: 386 (s.w.) SOUTH SUDAN.
    • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated, “one colony”).
    • Type-locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): E slopes Imatong Mts, ca 4100 ft, 31.viii.1939, no. 1378 (N.A. Weber).
    • Type-depository: MCZC.
    • Subspecies of chapini: Bolton, 1995b: 101; McArthur, 2012: 203.
    • Distribution: South Sudan.

Description

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 101, catalogue)
  • Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389 (page 386, soldier, worker described)