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Camponotus lindigi
| Camponotus lindigi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. lindigi |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus lindigi Mayr, 1870
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 12.083° to 4.85°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Belize, Colombia (type locality), Costa Rica, Greater Antilles, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
Check data from AntWeb
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
Images from AntWeb
   
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0280113. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection. |
   
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0280114. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection. |
   
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0619234. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by JTLC. |
   
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| Syntype of Camponotus lindigi. Worker. Specimen code casent0910702. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- lindigi. Camponotus lindigi Mayr, 1870a: 385, pl. fig. 5 (s.w.q.) COLOMBIA.
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Colombia (“New Granada”): (no further data) (Lindig).
- Type-depository: NHMW.
- Santschi, 1936b: 217 (m.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmobrachys): Forel, 1914a: 270.
- Status as species: Forel, 1879a: 101; Emery, 1890a: 70; Dalla Torre, 1893: 240; Emery, 1896d: 377 (in list); Forel, 1899c: 141; Forel, 1899d: 274; Forel, 1902b: 171; Forel, 1905b: 160; Wheeler, W.M. 1907a: 277; Forel, 1907e: 11; Forel, 1908b: 72; Forel, 1914a: 270; Wheeler, W.M. 1916d: 330; Mann, 1922: 53; Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 16; Emery, 1925b: 164; Santschi, 1936b: 217; Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 258; Weber, 1948b: 86; Kempf, 1972a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 108; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 762.
- Distribution: Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curação, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad, Venezuela.
Description
References
- Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 270, Combination in C. (Myrmobrachys))
- Mayr, G. 1870a. Formicidae novogranadenses. Sitzungsber. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. Abt. I 61: 370-417 (page 385, pl. fig. 5 soldier, worker, queen described)
- Santschi, F. 1936b. Contribution à l'étude des fourmis de l'Amérique du Sud. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 6: 196-218 (page 217, male described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Boer P. 2019. Ants of Curacao, species list. Accessed on January 22 2019 at http://www.nlmieren.nl/websitepages/SPECIES%20LIST%20CURACAO.html
- Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
- Forel A. 1902. Quatre notices myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 170-182.
- Forel A. 1905. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 49: 155-185.
- Forel A. 1908. Fourmis de Costa-Rica récoltées par M. Paul Biolley. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 44: 35-72.
- Jaffe, Klaus and Lattke, John. 1994. Ant Fauna of the French and Venezuelan Islands in the Caribbean in Exotic Ants, editor D.F. Williams. 182-190.
- Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
- Luna Bello G. O. 2005. Composicion y estructura de la comunidad de hormigas a lo largo de un gradiente de intensificacion agricola en zonas de bosque tropical humedo en la region autonoma Atlantico Sur, Nicaragua. PhD Universidad Centroamericana, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnologia del Ambiente carrera de Ecologi y Desarrollo. 127 pages
- Maes, J.-M. and W.P. MacKay. 1993. Catalogo de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 23.
- Perez-Sanchez A. J., J. E. Lattke, and A. L. Viloria. 2012. Patterns of Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Richness and Relative Abundance along an Aridity Gradient in Western Venezuela. Neotrop Entomol DOI 10.1007/s13744-012-0096-y
- Pérez-Sánchez A. J., J. E. Lattke, and M. A. Riera-Valera. 2014. The Myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Macanao Semi-arid Peninsula in Venezuela: An Altitudinal Variation Glance. J Biodivers Biopros Dev 1: 116. doi:10.4172/ijbbd.1000116
- Weber N. A. 1948. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan islands: No. 14. Ants from the Leeward Group and some other Caribbean localities. Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen 5: 78-86.
- Wheeler W. M. 1922. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45: 1-16.
- Wheeler W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262.