Camponotus cinereus amperei

Camponotus cinereus amperei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. cinereus
Subspecies:	C. cinereus amperei
Trinomial name
	Camponotus cinereus amperei; Forel, 1913

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -22.7011° to -35.50386°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (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.

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

Castes

Nomenclature

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

amperei. Camponotus (Myrmocamelus) cinereus var. amperei Forel, 1913g: 192 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
- Type-material: holotype (?) minor worker.
- [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
- Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, Sea Lake (J.C. Goudie).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1925b: 110.
- Subspecies of cinereus: Forel, 1915b: 103 (footnote); Emery, 1925b: 110; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 111; Taylor, 1987a: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 85; McArthur, 2007a: 331; Heterick, 2009: 67; McArthur, 2010: 98; McArthur, 2014: 146.
- Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Camponotus (Myrmocamelus) cinereus amperei Forel, 1913: Syntype, 5 workers, Sea Lake, Victoria, 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 minor. Length 7 mm. The head a little longer than the type, almost one quarter longer than wide. The scapes also longer and surpass the head by nearly half their length. The principal differences besides this are the pubescence extremely thin, short and sparse, and the erect pilosity which is very sparse on the body and none on the legs whereas it is quite abundant in cinereus also on the cheeks, (not on the limbs, which are quite devoid of it). All the rest is identical; the sides of the head are moderately compressed as in the type

Sea Lake, Victoria.(Goudie)

References

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 85, catalogue)
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 110, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))
Forel, A. 1913h. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lae, Froggatt etc. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 49: 173-195 (page 192, worker described)
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).
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 111, subspecies of cinereus)