Camponotus frontalis

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Camponotus frontalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. frontalis
Binomial name
Camponotus frontalis
Pergande, 1896

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Specimen labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 21.517° to 21.517°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Mexico (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

Images from AntWeb

Camponotus frontalis castype00603 head 1.jpgCamponotus frontalis castype00603 profile 1.jpgCamponotus frontalis castype00603 dorsal 1.jpgCamponotus frontalis castype00603 label 1.jpg
Worker. Specimen code castype00603. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Nomenclature

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

  • frontalis. Camponotus frontalis Pergande, 1896: 862 (s.w.) MEXICO (Nayarit).
    • Type-material: 2 syntype major workers, 15 syntype minor workers.
    • Type-locality: Mexico: Nayarit, Tepic, x.-xi.1894 (G. Eisen & Vaslit).
    • Type-depository: USNM.
    • Combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1914a: 271;
    • combination in C. (Myrmaphaenus): Emery, 1925b: 155.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1896d: 375 (in list); Forel, 1899c: 150; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 572; Emery, 1925b: 155; Kempf, 1972a: 46; Bolton, 1995b: 100.
    • Distribution: Mexico.

Description

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 100, catalogue)
  • Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 155, combination in C. (Myrmaphaenus))
  • Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 271, combination in C. (Myrmamblys))
  • Pergande, T. 1896. Mexican Formicidae. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2) 5: 858-896 (page 862, soldier, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Pergande, T. 1895. Mexican Formicidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Ser. 2 :850-896
  • Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133