Camponotus crispulus

Camponotus crispulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. crispulus
Binomial name
Camponotus crispulus Santschi, 1922 Specimen labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -18.112222° to -31.632389°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Argentina (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.

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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0173409. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ALWC, Alex L. Wild Collection.

Nomenclature

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

• crispulus. Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus) blandus var. crispula Santschi, 1922c: 110 (w.) ARGENTINA (Córdoba, Chaco, Corrientes), BOLIVIA.
  • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
  • Type-localities: Argentina: Córdoba, Cabana (M.I. Scott) (invalid restriction of type-locality by Kempf, 1972a: 44; no lectotype designated), Argentina: Chaco, Gran Chaco, Rio Tapenago (E.R. Wagner), Argentina: Corrientes, San Roques (J. Bosq), Bolivia: Santa Cruz de la Sierra (C. Lizer & L. Delétang).
  • Type-depository: NHMB.
  • Subspecies of blandus: Emery, 1925b: 153; Santschi, 1929d: 315; Kusnezov, 1952d: 198; Kempf, 1972a: 44; Bolton, 1995b: 94.
  • Status as species: Wild, 2007b: 28, 46.
  • Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Boer P. 2019. Ants of Curacao, species list. Accessed on January 22 2019 at http://www.nlmieren.nl/websitepages/SPECIES%20LIST%20CURACAO.html
• Cuezzo, F. 1998. Formicidae. Chapter 42 in Morrone J.J., and S. Coscaron (dirs) Biodiversidad de artropodos argentinos: una perspectiva biotaxonomica Ediciones Sur, La Plata. Pages 452-462.
• 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.
• Kusnezov N. 1953. La fauna mirmecológica de Bolivia. Folia Universitaria. Cochabamba 6: 211-229.
• Santschi F. 1922. Camponotus néotropiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 62: 97-124.
• Santschi F. 1925. Fourmis des provinces argentines de Santa Fe, Catamarca, Santa Cruz, Córdoba et Los Andes. Comunicaciones del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural "Bernardino Rivadavia" 2: 149-168.
• Santschi F. 1929. Nouvelles fourmis de la République Argentine et du Brésil. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina. 107: 273-316.
• Vittar, F. 2008. Hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de la Mesopotamia Argentina. INSUGEO Miscelania 17(2):447-466
• Vittar, F., and F. Cuezzo. "Hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de la provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina." Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina (versión On-line ISSN 1851-7471) 67, no. 1-2 (2008).