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Camponotus himalayanus
| Camponotus himalayanus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. himalayanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus himalayanus Forel, 1893
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Identification
Radchenko (1997) - Differs from Camponotus fallax in brightly orange coxae and femura and coarser sculptured semi-mat head and thorax.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 32.812778° to 30.7394°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (type locality), Nepal.
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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- himalayanus. Camponotus marginatus var. himalayanus Forel, 1893b: 431 (w.) INDIA (no state data).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: India: (no further data).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in C. (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1925b: 118.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Emery, 1925b: 118.
- Subspecies of fallax: Forel, 1906b: 84.
- Subspecies of caryae: Wheeler, 1917c: 29; Emery, 1925b: 118; Menozzi, 1939a: 317 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 234; Bolton, 1995b: 103.
- Status as species: Collingwood, 1970: 382; Radchenko, 1996b: 1200 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 704; Bharti & Wachkoo, 2014a: 8 (in key); Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 24.
- Distribution: India, Nepal.
Description
References
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 118, Combination in C. (Myrmentoma))
- Forel, A. 1893c. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 430-439 (page 431, worker described)
- Forel, A. 1906b. Les fourmis de l'Himalaya. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 42: 79-94 (page 84, Variety of fallax)
- Radchenko, A. G. 1996e. A key to the ant genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Palearctic Asia. Zool. Zh. 7 75: 1195-1203 (page 1200, Raised to species (in key))
- Radchenko, A.G. 1997. A review of ants of the subgenus Myrmentoma, genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), from Asian Palaearctic. Entomological Review 77: 1050-1059 (translated from Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76: 703-711).
- Subedi, I.P., Budha, P.B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L. 2020. An updated checklist of Nepalese ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1006, 99–136 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1006.58808).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bharti H., Y. P. Sharma, M. Bharti, and M. Pfeiffer. 2013. Ant species richness, endemicity and functional groups, along an elevational gradient in the Himalayas. Asian Myrmecology 5: 79-101.
- Collingwood C.A. 1970. Formicidae (Hymenopter: Aculeata) of Nepal. Himalaya Khumbu Himal, 3: 371-388.
- Thapa V. K. 2000. An Inventory of Nepal's Insects, Vol. III. IUCN Nepal, Kathmandu, xi + 475 pp.