Camponotus maculatus obfuscatus

Camponotus maculatus obfuscatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. maculatus
Subspecies:	C. maculatus obfuscatus
Trinomial name
Camponotus maculatus obfuscatus Viehmeyer, 1916

Heterick & Kitching (2022) collected this species in the canopy (in a malaise trap) of a lowland dipterocarp forest in Brunei (however they note that more material is needed for a definitive identification of their specimens).

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Brunei Darussalam, Singapore (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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• obfuscatus. Camponotus (Myrmoturba) subnudus var. obfuscata Viehmeyer, 1916a: 154 (s.w.) SINGAPORE.
  • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: Singapore: 13 : 153 (no further data), (xi.1912-vi.1914) (H. Overbeck).
  • Type-depository: MNHU (perhaps also SMTD).
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1920c: 7; Emery, 1925b: 94; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 248.
  • Subspecies of maculatus: Bolton, 1995b: 114; Wang, W.Y., Soh, et al. 2022: 43.
  • Distribution: Singapore.

References

• Baltazar, C.R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758-1963). Pacific Insects Monographs 8: 1-488. (page 274, listed)
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 114, Subspecies of maculatus, catalogue)
• Heterick, B.E., Kitching, R.L. 2022. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of a one-hectare plot of lowland dipterocarp forest. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 158(4), 261–272 (doi:10.31184/m00138908.1584.4153).
• Viehmeyer, H. 1916a [1915]. Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Arch. Naturgesch. (A) 81(8): 108-168 (page 154, soldier, worker described)
• Wang, W.Y., Soh, E.J.Y., Yong, G.W.J., Wong, M.K.L., Benoit Guénard, Economo, E.P., Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006 (doi:10.20362/am.015006).