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Camponotus coloratus
| Camponotus coloratus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. coloratus |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus coloratus Forel, 1904
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 20.99099722° to -22.809943°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Argentina, Colombia (type locality), Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay.
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. |
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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.
- coloratus. Camponotus melanoticus var. colorata Forel, 1904c: 49 (in text) (s.w.q.) COLOMBIA.
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Colombia: Cienaga (A. Forel).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Bruch, 1914: 229;
- combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 83.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1906c: 188.
- Subspecies of melanoticus: Forel, 1908b: 71; Forel, 1909a: 265; Forel, 1912i: 70; Bruch, 1914: 229; Forel, 1915c: 363.
- Subspecies of substitutus: Emery, 1925b: 83; Santschi, 1931e: 282; Kusnezov, 1952d: 225; Kempf, 1972a: 72; Bolton, 1995b: 93; Mackay & Delsinne, 2009: 497 (in key).
- Status as species: Wild, 2007b: 27, 49; Bezděčková, et al. 2015: 112; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 756.
- Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru.
Description
References
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bruch C. 1914. Catálogo sistemático de los formícidos argentinos. Revista del Museo de La Plata 19: 211-234.
- Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
- Del Toro, I., M. Vázquez, W.P. Mackay, P. Rojas and R. Zapata-Mata. Hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Tabasco: explorando la diversidad de la mirmecofauna en las selvas tropicales de baja altitud. Dugesiana 16(1):1-14.
- Forel A. 1908. Fourmis de Costa-Rica récoltées par M. Paul Biolley. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 44: 35-72.
- Forel A. 1912. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 20: 59-92.
- Gove, A. D., J. D. Majer, and V. Rico-Gray. 2009. Ant assemblages in isolated trees are more sensitive to species loss and replacement than their woodland counterparts. Basic and Applied Ecology 10: 187-195.
- Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
- Kusnezov N. 1952. El género Camponotus en la Argentina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 12: 183-252.
- MacKay W., and T. Delsinne. 2009. A new species of carpenter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Camponotus) from Paraguay with a key to the New World members of the maculatus species complex. Sociobiology 53: 487-498.
- Salinas P. J. 2010. Catalogue of the ants of the Táchira State, Venezuela, with notes on their biodiversity, biogeography and ecology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyioponinae, Ponerinae, Proceratiinae, Myrmicinae, Ecitoninae, Formicinae, Pseudomyrmecinae, Dolichoderinae). Boletín de la SEA 47: 315-328.
- Santschi F. 1931. Contribution à l'étude des fourmis de l'Argentine. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina. 112: 273-282.
- Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133
- Wild, A. L. "A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Zootaxa 1622 (2007): 1-55.