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Camponotus cruentatus asper
| Camponotus cruentatus asper | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. cruentatus |
| Subspecies: | C. cruentatus asper |
| Trinomial name | |
| Camponotus cruentatus asper Menozzi, 1925 | |
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
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
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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.
- asper. Camponotus (Myrmosericus) cruentatus var. aspera Menozzi, 1925b: 371 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
- Type-material: 4 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, Melbourne (no collector’s name).
- Type-depository: DEIB (perhaps also IEUB).
- Subspecies of cruentatus: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 112; Taylor, 1987a: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 86.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Camponotus (Myrmosericus) cruentatus aspera Menozzi, 1925: Syntype, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, museum unknown (prob. IEGG (Bologna) or DEI (Müncheberg)).
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker. It differs from the type in having more opaque mandibles, with very dense striations and piligerous punctations less dispersed; but otherwise similar to the type. Melbourne (Australia)
I received four specimens of C cruentatus from the Dutch East Indies. It differs from these by its very opaque mandibles with a dense and very fine and quite distinct striation on all its upper surface, especially in the distal half. I found it necessary to distinguish this variety by name even for geographical reasons; in fact it should be noted that the typical form up until now has been found only in southern Europe and in some regions of north America.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 86, catalogue)
- Menozzi, C. 1925b. Qualche formica nuova od interessante del Deutsch. Ent. Institut di Dahlem (Form.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 368-371 (page 371, worker described)