Camponotus mus

Camponotus mus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. mus
Binomial name
Camponotus mus Roger, 1863 Specimen labels
Subspecies
Camponotus mus mendozanus Santschi, 1922 Camponotus mus mustelus Emery, 1920
Synonyms
Camponotus ogloblini Santschi, 1934

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 21.21666667° to -36.73333333°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

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Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (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.

Biology

Association with Other Organisms

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• This species is a prey for the syrphid fly Masarygus planifrons (a predator) (Quevillon, 2018).

Castes

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Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0173433. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ALWC, Alex L. Wild Collection.

Nomenclature

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

• mus. Camponotus mus Roger, 1863a: 143 (w.q.) URUGUAY.
  • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: Uruguay (“La Plata-Staaten”): Montevideo (no collector’s name).
  • Type-depository: unknown.
  • [Note: Roger type-material is principally in DEIB, MNHN, MNHU, ZSBS.]
  • Forel, 1879a: 98 (s.); Emery, 1894g: 374 (q.m.); Goni, et al. 1983: 366 (k.).
  • Combination in C. (Myrmobrachys): Forel, 1914a: 270.
  • Subspecies of senex: Forel, 1879a: 98; Forel, 1886f: 180; Emery, 1888c: 364; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 251 (footnote); von Jhering, 1894: 374; Emery, 1896d: 377 (in list).
  • Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 5; Mayr, 1863: 459; Dalla Torre, 1893: 243; Forel, 1895b: 103; Emery, 1906c: 192; Forel, 1911e: 291; Santschi, 1912e: 534; Forel, 1912i: 79; Forel, 1914a: 270; Bruch, 1914: 229; Bruch, 1916: 353; Santschi, 1916e: 397; Bruch, 1917d: 433; Gallardo, 1919b: 254; Emery, 1920b: 260; Emery, 1925b: 164; Borgmeier, 1927c: 157; Kusnezov, 1952d: 212; Kusnezov, 1953b: 339; Kempf, 1972a: 52; Kempf, 1978b: 37; Zolessi, et al. 1988: 6; Brandão, 1991: 333; Bolton, 1995b: 112; Wild, 2007b: 28; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 256; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 763.
  • Senior synonym of ogloblini: Kempf, 1978b: 37; Brandão, 1991: 333; Bolton, 1995b: 112.
  • Distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus mendozanus, mustelus.
• ogloblini. Camponotus (Myrmobrachys) ogloblini Santschi, 1934c: 32, fig. 20 (w.) ARGENTINA (Misiones).
  • Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
  • Type-locality: Argentina: Misiones, Loreto, 20.iv.1933, no. 2030 (A.A. Ogloblin).
  • Type-depository: NHMB.
  • Status as species: Kusnezov, 1952d: 215; Kempf, 1972a: 52.
  • Junior synonym of mus: Kempf, 1978b: 37; Brandão, 1991: 333; Bolton, 1995b: 115.
  • okamotoi. Camponotus itoi okamotoi McArthur, 2012: 100.
  • [First available use of Camponotus (Myrmamblys) itoi subsp. lighti var. okamotoi Wheeler, W.M. 1927d: 10 (w.) CHINA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
  • Type-material: 2 syntype minor workers.
  • Type-locality: China: Amoy (= Xiamen) (K. Okamoto).
  • Type-depository: MCZC.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1928b: 41; Wheeler, W.M. 1930h: 77; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 231.
  • [Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bolton, 1995b: 115.]
  • Distribution: China.
• ombilicata. Camponotus reticulatus subsp. bedoti var. ombilicata Baroni Urbani, 1971b: 362.
  • [Unavailable (infrasubspecific) replacement name for punctulata Karavaiev, 1929c: 240; unavailable name (Bolton, 1995b: 115).]

Description

Karyotype

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• 2n = 26, karyotype = 16SM+10A (Uruguay) (Goni et al., 1983).

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