Camponotus fumidus imbecillus

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Camponotus fumidus imbecillus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. fumidus
Subspecies: C. fumidus imbecillus
Trinomial name
Camponotus fumidus imbecillus
Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914

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Specimen Label

A Haitian endemic known only from the type workers (four majors and four minors).

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 19.56° to 19.56°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Haiti (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

Known only from the worker caste.

Worker

Minor

Nomenclature

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

  • imbecillus. Camponotus fumidus var. imbecillus Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914: 52 (s.w.) HAITI.
    • Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 80.
    • Subspecies of fumidus: Emery, 1925b: 80; Kempf, 1972a: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 104; Lubertazzi, 2019: 87.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker

major Allied to C. fumidus var. fragilis Pergande, but differing in the following characters: The head is shaped as in the vars. illitus and festinatus and is distinctly broader than in fragilis and bears on the vertex a dark brown spot which is absent in this variety. The yellow color of the body and especially of the head is darker and more reddish, and the brown bands on the gaster are darker and more sharply defined. The suberect hairs on the antennal scapes are about equally abundant in both varieties, the hairs on the body are more abundant in imbecillus.

minor Indistinguishable from the corresponding phase of fragilis.

Type Material

Described from four major and four minor workers taken at Grande Riviere.

References