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Camponotus crenatus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. crenatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus crenatus Mayr, 1876
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -19.25983° to -19.25983°.
| 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
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.
- crenatus. Camponotus crenatus Mayr, 1876: 64 (s.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Type-material: 2 syntype major workers.
- Type-locality: Australia: Queensland, Rockhampton (no collector’s name).
- Type-depository: NHMW.
- Subgenus indeterminate: Bolton, 1995b: 94.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 227; Emery, 1896d: 374 (in list); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 112; Taylor, 1987a: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 94; McArthur, 2014: 148.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Holotype, worker, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker major. Length 8mm. Black, glossy, apical part of the mandibles ferruginous, antennae and part of the tarses dull chestnut; moderately hairy, very scattered pubescence, gaster and metanotum (= propodeum) rather densely pubescent, antennae and feet without erect hairs, mandibles curved, glossy with dispersed punctations; head minutely and densely punctated, with dispersed punctations, above anteriorly with clypeus scarcely keeled, anterior scarcely produced, with crenations impressed on the middle of the anterior margin; the thorax is finely correate, short, convex above the angle of the propodeum, the basal part of the metanotum (= propodeum) straight; the node on the petiole moderately thickened, rounded quadrate; gaster minutely transversely coriaceous-striate. Rockhampton in Queensland (Museum Godeffroy)
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)
- Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 64, soldier described)