Camponotus dolendus

Camponotus dolendus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. dolendus
Binomial name
	Camponotus dolendus; Forel, 1892 Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Camponotus of India

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 28.814° to 28.814°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (type locality), Laos, Nepal.
Palaearctic Region: China.

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.

Biology

Castes

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Syntype of Camponotus dolendus. Worker. Specimen code casent0910328. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

dolendus. Camponotus rufoglaucus r. dolendus Forel, 1892j: 238 (w.q.m.) INDIA (Himachal Pradesh).
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: India: Dharmsala (Sage).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Imai, et al. 1984: 9 (k.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmosericus): Forel, 1914a: 268.
- Subspecies of rufoglaucus: Emery, 1895h: 50 (in key); Emery, 1896d: 372 (in list); Emery, 1925b: 106; Menozzi, 1939a: 318 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 238.
- Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 364; Forel, 1906b: 84; Santschi, 1920h: 174; Santschi, 1924c: 114; Collingwood, 1970: 380; Wang, C., Xiao & Wu, 1989a: 222 (in key); Wang, M., 1992: 681; Wang, C. & Wu, 1994: 30 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 96; Tiwari, 1999: 70; Zhou, 2001b: 204; Ghosh, et al. 2005: 13; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 65; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 67; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 28; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 24; Jaitrong, Guénard, et al. 2016: 28.
- Distribution: China, India, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam.

Description

Karyotype

See additional details at the Ant Chromosome Database.

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2n = 20, karyotype = 20M (India) (Imai et al., 1984).

References

Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 364, raised to species)
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 96, catalogue)
Dhadwal, T., Bharti, H. 2023. Two new species of the genus Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with five new records from India. European Journal of Taxonomy 901, 1-51 (doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.901.2317).
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 106, subspecies of rufoglaucus)
Forel, A. 1892k. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part I. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 219-245 (page 238, worker, queen, male described)
Forel, A. 1906b. Les fourmis de l'Himalaya. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 42: 79-94 (page 84, raised to species)
Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 268, combination in C. (Myrmosericus))
Imai, H. T.; Baroni Urbani, C.; Kubota, M.; Sharma, G. P.; Narasimhanna, M. H.; Das, B. C.; 1984. Karyological survey of Indian ants. Jpn. J. Genet. 59: 1-32 (page 9, karyotype described)
Khachonpisitsak, S., Yamane, S., Sriwichai, P., Jaitrong, W. 2020. An updated checklist of the ants of Thailand (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 998, 1–182 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.998.54902).
Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
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Santschi, F. 1920h. Fourmis d'Indo-Chine. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 60: 158-176 (page 174, raised to species)
Subedi, I.P., Budha, P.B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L. 2020. An updated checklist of Nepalese ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1006, 99–136 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1006.58808).
Wang, C.; Xiao, G.; Wu, J. 1989a. Taxonomic studies on the genus Camponotus Mayr in China (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). [part]. For. Res. 2: 221-228 (page 222, revived status as species (in key))

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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