Camponotus lespesii

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Camponotus lespesii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. lespesii
Binomial name
Camponotus lespesii
Forel, 1886

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Specimen labels

Synonyms

Rosumek (2017) assessed trophic resource use and period of activity within the ant community in a southern Brazil Atlantic forest. For this species: widespread in the Neotropics. Byk and Del-Claro (2010) recorded it qualitatively visiting extra-floral nectaries and Paula et al. (2016) observed it on experimental carcasses, predating the larvae and pupae of necrophagous insects and feeding on the carcass itself. In this study it was found to concentrate on crushed insects and sucrose, with the majority of records from nighttime sampling.

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 25.68015° to -27.22555556°.

     
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia (type locality), Mexico, Panama, Paraguay.

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

Koch et al. (2018) sampled this species in Caryocar barsiliense trees, in southeastern Brazil cerrado, as part of a study examining species interactions in ant-plants.

Lange et al. (2015) - This species was found in semideciduous mesophytic forest pitfall-trap samples. The study examined the ant community within a patch (11.2 hectares) of forest in an urban park (Araguari, Brazil).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • lespesii. Camponotus sexguttatus r. lespesii Forel, 1886f: 169 (w.) COLOMBIA.
    • Type-material: holotype media worker.
    • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given, but certainly just one because Forel says it is a media worker that he called C. landolti in his previous study (i.e. Forel, 1879a: 72); he adds, “It is a worker media, and not a minor”.]
    • Type-locality: Colombia: Ocagna (Landolt).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Mayr, 1887: 514 (q.m.).
    • Combination in C. (Dinomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 268;
    • combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 83.
    • Status as species: Mayr, 1887: 513 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 238; Forel, 1895b: 103; Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Forel, 1899c: 137; Forel, 1906d: 249; Forel, 1908c: 406; Forel, 1911e: 291; Luederwaldt, 1918: 50; Emery, 1925b: 83; Borgmeier, 1927c: 148; Kempf, 1972a: 68; Bolton, 1995b: 108; Wild, 2007b: 28, 50; Bezděčková, et al. 2015: 112; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 762.
    • Senior synonym of melancholicus: Wild, 2007b: 50.
    • Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, Peru.
  • melancholicus. Camponotus lespesi subsp. melancholicus Emery, 1894e: 2 (s.w.) PARAGUAY.
    • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
    • Type-locality: Paraguay: Colonia Risso (A. Borelli).
    • Type-depository: MSNG.
    • Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 83.
    • Subspecies of lespesii: Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Emery, 1925b: 83; Borgmeier, 1927c: 148; Kusnezov, 1952d: 211; Kempf, 1972a: 68; Bolton, 1995b: 111.
    • Junior synonym of lespesii: Wild, 2007b: 50.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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