Camponotus macilentus

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Camponotus macilentus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. macilentus
Binomial name
Camponotus macilentus
Smith, F., 1877

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Specimen labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 0.54694° to -0.829278°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands (type locality).

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

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus jacobensisWorker. Specimen code castype00450-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus jacobensisWorker. Specimen code castype00450-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus jacobensisQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code castype00450-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus barringtonensisWorker. Specimen code castype00451-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus barringtonensisWorker. Specimen code castype00451-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus barringtonensisQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code castype00451-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus duncanensisWorker. Specimen code castype00452-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus duncanensisWorker. Specimen code castype00452-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus duncanensisMale (alate). Specimen code castype00452-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus albemarlensisWorker. Specimen code castype00453-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus albemarlensisWorker. Specimen code castype00453-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus hoodensisWorker. Specimen code castype00454-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus hoodensisWorker. Specimen code castype00454-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus macilentus hoodensisWorker. Specimen code castype00454-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Nomenclature

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

  • macilentus. Camponotus macilentus Smith, F. 1877a: 83 (w.) ECUADOR (Galapagos Is).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Wheeler, W.M. 1919c: 279;
    • combination in C. (Pseudocolobopsis): Emery, 1920b: 259.
    • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 241; Emery, 1896d: 371, 378 (in list); Wheeler, W.M. 1919c: 279; Wheeler, W.M. 1924a: 114; Emery, 1925b: 158; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 43; Linsley & Usinger, 1966: 176; Kempf, 1972a: 63; Bolton, 1995b: 109.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus albemarlensis, altinotus, barringtonensis, bindloensis, castellanus, duncanensis, hoodensis, jacobensis, narboroensis, pervicus, sapphirinus, vulcanalis, wollebaeki.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Clark, David B., Concepcion Guayasamin, Olga Pazmino, Cecilia Donoso, Yolanda Paez de Villacis. 1982. The Tramp Ant Wasmannia auropunctata. Biotropica. 14 (3):196-207.
  • Emery C. 1886. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna 5: 363-382
  • Herrera H. W. 2013. CDF Checklist of Galapagos Ants - FCD Lista de especies de Hormigas Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://checklists.datazone.darwinfoundation.org/terrestrial-invertebrates/formicidae/ Last updated: 01 Mar 2013
  • Herrera H.W., and L. Roque-Albelo. 2007. Lista anotada de las hormigas de las Islas Galapagos, Ecuador. Fundación Charles Darwin. 13 pp
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Kusnezov N. 1963. Zoogeografia de las hormigas en sudamerica. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 19: 25-208
  • Linsley E. G., and R. L. Usinger. 1966. Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 33: 113-196.
  • Pezzatti, Boris, Irzan, Trimurti and Cherix, Daniel. 1998. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Floreana: Lost Paradise?. Noticias de Galapagos. 59:11-20.
  • Von Aesch, Leila. 2006. Introduced Ants in Galapagos (Floreana Island): Importance of Competition, Coexistence and Aggressive Behaviors. (Chapter 1 published: von Aech, L. and D. Cherix. 2005. Introduced ant species and mechanisms of competition on Floreana Island. Sociobiology 45(2): 463-481.)
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1919. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906. XIV. The ants of the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)2(2):259-297.
  • Wheeler, William Morton. 1933. Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition. California Academy of Sciences. 21(6):57-64.