Camponotus hartogi

Camponotus hartogi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. hartogi
Binomial name
Camponotus hartogi Forel, 1902 Specimen Labels
Synonyms
Camponotus ferruginipes Crawley, 1922

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Australian Camponotus minors of the southwestern Botanical Province
• Key to Australian Camponotus species

Distribution

Heterick (2009) - Southern distribution, found in SA, Vic and WA.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -24.97305489° to -41.1°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• hartogi. Camponotus hartogi Forel, 1902h: 500 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
  • Type-material: holotype (?) minor worker.
  • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
  • Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, Yarra Dist. (no collector’s name; perhaps W.W. Froggatt).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1974a: 61 (l.).
  • Combination in C. (Myrmepomis): Forel, 1914a: 273;
  • combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1925b: 111.
  • Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 111; Clark, 1934c: 72; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 115; Taylor, 1987a: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 102; McArthur, 2007a: 322; McArthur, 2010: 96; McArthur, 2014: 152.
  • Senior synonym of ferruginipes: Brown, 1956a: 40; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 115; Taylor, 1987a: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 102; McArthur, 2007a: 295; McArthur, 2010: 96.
  • Distribution: Australia.
• ferruginipes. Camponotus (Myrmosaga) ferruginipes Crawley, in Poulton & Crawley, 1922: 125 (s.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
  • Type-material: holotype major worker.
  • Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, nr Healesville, 1914 (E.B. Poulton).
  • Type-depository: OXUM.
  • [Misspelled as ferrugineus by Santschi, 1928e: 482.]
  • Combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1925b: 111.
  • Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 111.
  • Junior synonym of hartogi: Brown, 1956a: 40; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 115; Taylor, 1987a: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 99; McArthur, 2007a: 295; McArthur, 2010: 96.

Type Material

• Camponotus hartogi: Holotype, worker, Yarra District, Victoria, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
• Camponotus (Myrmosaga) ferruginipes Crawley, 1922: Holotype, worker, near Healesville, Victoria, Australia, museum unknown (probably UMO (Oxford)).

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

Description

Worker (Probably media) Length 9 mm. Mandibles short, the outer border a little curved, probably armed with 6 teeth, punctate and finely shagreen. Clypeus weakly convex scarcely sub lobed (rounded lobe) strongly indented in the middle of the anterior border and also laterally, without a keel, the sides diverging strongly to the front. Frontal ridges indistinct; frontal groove distinct. Frontal ridges strongly sinuous and diverging. The eyes at 2/5 of the posterior. The head as wide as long, in a short trapeze, rounded; posterior border weakly and widely concave. The scapes pass the occiput by 1/4 of their length. Pronotum wider than long, flat above, margined at the front and sides except for the posterior angles flatter and less shouldered than ethicus of Madigascar. Mesonotum sub depressed, sub edged. Metanotum compressed; basal face sub bordered three times as wide as long, twice as long as the declivity. Node very thick, convex in front and behind, with an obtuse border. Tibias cylindrical, with a range of little spines. Sub opaque (micans). Head and pronotum densely reticulate punctate; the remainder rather shagreen or wrinkled transversely. Punctation very sparse and very fine, almost none at all except on the gaster and front of the head. Pilosity erect reddish yellow, sparse on the body and scapes, none on the limbs. Pubescence is flat lying and sparse, fine and very distinct everywhere. Black; limbs red; borders of the gastric segments yellow.

Yarra Districts, Victoria.

References

• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1956c. Some synonymies in the ant genus Camponotus. Psyche (Camb.) 63: 38-40 (page 40, Senior synonym of ferrunginipes)
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 111, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))
• Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 500, worker described)
• Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 273, Combination in C. (Myrmepomis))
• Heterick, B. E. 2009a. A guide to the ants of South-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 76: 1-206. Part 1.
• Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
• Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1974a. Ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae: third supplement. J. Ga. Entomol. Soc. 9: 59-64 (page 61, larva described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Forel A. 1902. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548.
• Lowery B. B., and R. J. Taylor. 1994. Occurrence of ant species in a range of sclerophyll forest communities at Old Chum Dam, north-eastern Tasmania. Australian Entomologist 21: 11-14.
• Sinclair J. E., and T. R. New. 2004. Pine plantations in south eastern Australia support highly impoverished ant assemblages (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Conservation 8: 277-286.