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Camponotus natalensis corvus
| Camponotus natalensis corvus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. natalensis |
| Subspecies: | C. natalensis corvus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Camponotus natalensis corvus Forel, 1879
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: South Africa (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. |
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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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- corvus. Camponotus natalensis r. corvus Forel, 1879a: 79 (s.w.q.m.) SOUTH AFRICA.
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: South Africa: Transvaal, Mission de Valdézia (P. Berthoud).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 103.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 227.
- Subspecies of natalensis: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 244 (footnote); Emery, 1895h: 51; Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Arnold, 1922: 654; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 960; Emery, 1925b: 103; Bolton, 1995b: 94.
- Distribution: South Africa.
Description
References
- Arnold, G. 1922. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part V. Myrmicinae. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 14: 579-674 (page 654, subspecies of natalensis)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)
- Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 227, raised to species)
- Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 64: 15-56 (page 51, subspecies of natalensis)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 103, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))
- Forel, A. 1879a. Études myrmécologiques en 1879 (deuxième partie [1re partie en 1878]). Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 16: 53-128 (page 79, soldier, worker, queen, male described)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922j. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 711-1004 (page 960, subspecies of natalensis)