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Camponotus intrepidus bellicosus
| Camponotus intrepidus bellicosus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. intrepidus |
| Subspecies: | C. intrepidus bellicosus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Camponotus intrepidus bellicosus Forel, 1902 | |
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
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. |
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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.
- bellicosus. Camponotus intrepidus r. bellicosus Forel, 1902h: 493 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Sydney (G. Turner).
- Type-depositories: ANIC, MHNG.
- Combination in C. (Myrmosaulus): Emery, 1925b: 114.
- Subspecies of intrepidus: Forel, 1910b: 82; Forel, 1915b: 105; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 116; Taylor, 1987a: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 88; McArthur, 2007a: 321; McArthur, 2014: 106.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Syntype, 1 worker, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Syntype, 17 workers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker. Length 12 to 15 mm. Entirely dull red with a black gaster.
Worker major. Mandibles longer and more curved than the type. The head is much widened behind, especially behind the eyes and strongly excavated (in the type it is not widened behind the eyes and the head is only slightly excavated). Metanotum (= propodeum) less convex and the thorax less elongated. Stature more robust; node less thick. Entirely matte, densely and finely reticulate-punctate, with the gaster subopaque and the limbs more or less glossy; pilosity more dense. The punctation sparse superimposed and very feeble, scarcely visible on the head (very distinct in the type); on the gaster, it is by contrast stronger than the type.
Worker minor. Head longer than the type intrepidus and especially less narrow behind with a marked posterior border. In other respects little different.
Sydney (Turner); Australia (my collection)
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 88, catalogue)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 114, combination in C. (Myrmosaulus))
- Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 493, soldier, worker described)