Camponotus foleyi ajjer

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Camponotus foleyi ajjer
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. foleyi
Subspecies: C. foleyi ajjer
Trinomial name
Camponotus foleyi ajjer
Bernard, 1953

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.

  • ajjer. Camponotus foleyi subsp. ajjer Bernard, 1953a: 192 (s.w.q.m.) ALGERIA.
    • Type-material: 12 syntype major and minor workers.
    • Type-locality: Algeria: Tassili des Ajjer, Oued Tamar, 1085 m., st. 39 bis, 1949 (F. Bernard).
    • Type-depository: MNHN.
    • Subspecies of foleyi: Bolton, 1995b: 84.
    • Distribution: Algeria.

Description

References

  • Bernard, F. 1953a. Les fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Pp. 121-250 in: Bernard, F. (ed.) Mission scientifique au Tassili des Ajjer (1949). Volume I. Recherches zoologiques et médicales. Paris: P. Lechevalier, 302 pp. (page 192, soldier, worker, queen, male described)
  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 84, catalogue)