Camponotus megalonyx
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| Camponotus megalonyx | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. megalonyx |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus megalonyx Wheeler, W.M., 1919
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Contents
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.
Oriental Region: India.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
Check data from AntWeb
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- megalonyx. Camponotus (Myrmosphincta) megalonyx Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 114 (s.w.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
- Stärcke, 1934: 24 (q.m.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmopalpella): Stärcke, 1934: 30 (in text).
- Status as species: Stärcke, 1934: 20 (redescription); Wheeler, W.M. 1936e: 217; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 110; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 85.
- Senior synonym of chalaconotus: Stärcke, 1934: 29; Wheeler, W.M. 1936e: 217 (in text); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 111; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 37.
- chalaconotus. Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) chalaconotus Menozzi, 1929c: 430, figs. 1, 2 (s.) (no state data, “without any precise indication of locality, but most probably from India (or Burma), since it came from the collection of the late Col. C.T. Bingham”).
- [Misspelled as chalconotus by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237.]
- Junior synonym of megalonyx: Stärcke, 1934: 29 (provisional); Wheeler, W.M. 1936e: 217 (in text); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237.
- Junior synonym of megalonyx: Stärcke, 1934: 29 (provisional); Wheeler, W.M. 1936e: 217 (in text) ; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 91.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 110, catalogue)
- Stärcke, A. 1934. Un nouveau sous-genre de Camponotus (Hymenoptera Formicidae) de la Malaisie avec description de formes nouvelles, récoltées par M. F. G. Nainggolan. Zool. Meded. (Leiden) 17: 20-30 (page 24, queen, male described)
- Stärcke, A. 1934. Un nouveau sous-genre de Camponotus (Hymenoptera Formicidae) de la Malaisie avec description de formes nouvelles, récoltées par M. F. G. Nainggolan. Zool. Meded. (Leiden) 17: 20-30 (page 30, combination in C. (Myrmopalpella))
- Stärcke, A. 1934. Un nouveau sous-genre de Camponotus (Hymenoptera Formicidae) de la Malaisie avec description de formes nouvelles, récoltées par M. F. G. Nainggolan. Zool. Meded. (Leiden) 17: 20-30 (page 29, senior synonym of chalaconontus)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 63: 43-147 (page 114, soldier, worker described)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1936f. Notes on some aberrant Indonesian ants of the subfamily Formicinae. Tijdschr. Entomol. 79: 217-221 (page 217, senior synonym of chalaconontus (provisional))
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
- Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
