Camponotus cognatocompressus

Camponotus cognatocompressus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. cognatocompressus
Binomial name
Camponotus cognatocompressus Forel, 1904 Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 36.2999° to 36.2999°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Iran.

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.

• cognatocompressus. Camponotus maculatus r. cognatocompressus Forel, 1904b: 379 (s.w.) “Africa”.
  • [First available use of Camponotus rubripes r. cognatus var. cognatocompressus Forel, 1886f: 151 (and footnote) (s.w.) (no state data, “Africa”); unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
  • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers.
  • Type-locality: “Africa”: (no further data).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Ruzsky, 1905b: 207; Karavaiev, 1910b: 9.
  • Status as species: Radchenko, 1997d: 810; Borowiec, L. 2014: 29.
  • Distribution: Egypt; Iran – Afrotropical.
  • [Note: distribution from Borowiec, 2014: 29; but Forel, 1904f: 424, describes the Iran specimens as xerxes.].

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 93, catalogue)
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Forel, A. 1886h. Études myrmécologiques en 1886. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 30: 131-215 (page 151, First available use of Camponotus rubripes r. cognatus var. cognatocompressus; unavailable name)
• Forel, A. 1904c [1903]. Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg. Ezheg. Zool. Muz. 8: 368-388 (page 379, worker, queen, male described)
• Karavaiev, V. 1910. Nachtrag zu meinen "Ameisen aus Transcaspien und Turkestan". Rus. Entomol. Obozr. 9: 268-272 (page 9, senior synonym of xerxes)
• Pisarski, B. 1967a. Fourmis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) d'Afghanistan récoltées par M. Dr. K. Lindberg. Ann. Zool. (Warsaw) 24: 375-425 (page 414, raised to species (under the name of xerxes))

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Forel A. 1904. Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg. Ezheg. Zool. Muz. 8: 368-388.