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Camponotus fumidus fraterculus
| Camponotus fumidus fraterculus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. fumidus |
| Subspecies: | C. fumidus fraterculus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Camponotus fumidus fraterculus Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914
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Stated as being found nesting in the same situation as Camponotus picipes plombyi, which were found living in crater nests in the ground (Wheeler and Mann 1914).
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 18.42° to 18.42°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Greater Antilles, Haiti (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. |
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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
Worker
Minor
Major
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- fraterculus. Camponotus maculatus subsp. fraterculus Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914: 50, fig. 21 (s.w.) HAITI.
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated, “numerous”).
- Type-locality: Haiti: Furcy, S Port au Prince, 1730 m., 1912-13 (W.M. Mann).
- Type-depository: MCZC.
- Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 81.
- Subspecies of fumidus: Emery, 1925b: 81; Kempf, 1972a: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 100; Lubertazzi, 2019: 85.
- Distribution: Haiti.
Description
Worker
Worker major. Length 8-9 mm.
Differing from the preceding subspecies in its smaller size, more coarsely shagreened surface, in having the short hairs covering the dorsal surface of the head and the cheeks more numerous and the surface more punctate. The antennal scapes bear very few erect hairs and those on the tibiae are shorter, less abundant and much more appressed. The head is brown, with the posterior corners, posterior border and c1ypeus, except its borders, brownish yellow; cheeks and vertex darker brown or blackish. Pro-, meso-, and epinotum each with a large brown or blackish patch above, that on the pronotum enclosing two elliptical yellow spots. The transverse bands on the gaster are darker and more sharply defined than in haytianus. The antennal scapes are dark brown, the funiculi brownish yellow.
Worker minor. Length 5-6.5 mm.
Yellow nearly throughout, the vertex of the head in some specimens slightly infuscated. Legs and scapes with very fine, dense,. appressed pubescence; scapes also with a few scattered, erect hairs.
Type Locality Information
Described from numerous specimens taken at Furcy where they were nesting in the same stations and in the same manner as the specimens of the subspecies plombyi.
References
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 81, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex), and subspecies of fumidus)
- Lubertazzi, D. 2019. The ants of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 162(2), 59-210 (doi:10.3099/mcz-43.1).
- Wheeler, W. M. 1914c. Ants collected by W. M. Mann in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 22: 37-61 (page 50, fig. 21 soldier, worker described)