Camponotus nicobarensis

Camponotus nicobarensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. nicobarensis
Binomial name
Camponotus nicobarensis Mayr, 1865 Specimen Labels
Subspecies
Camponotus nicobarensis monticola Bingham, 1903 Camponotus nicobarensis rabbani Emery, 1925

Photo Gallery

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  Camponotus nicobarensis worker. Photo by Ants Kingdom Asia.
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  Photo by Vladimir Zryanin.
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  Camponotus near nicobarensis queen. Photo by Michal Kukla.
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  Camponotus nicobarensis queen. Photo by Taku Shimada.
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  Camponotus near nicobarensis queen. Photo by Michal Kukla.

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Camponotus of India

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 47.528713° to 14.378012°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India, Laos, Nicobar Island (type locality), Thailand, Vietnam.
Palaearctic Region: China.

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

Flight Period

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Castes

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  Liu, C. et al. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains, Figure 25, Camponotus nicobarensis.

.	Owned by Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Images from AntWeb

Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus nicobarensis exiguoguttatus monticola. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0905804. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Worker. Specimen code casent0906970. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Worker. Specimen code casent0906971. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Worker. Specimen code casent0906972. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Syntype of Camponotus nicobarensis. Worker. Specimen code casent0910158. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Syntype of Camponotus nicobarensis rabbani. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910161. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Syntype of Camponotus nicobarensis rabbani. Worker. Specimen code casent0910162. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

• nicobarensis. Camponotus nicobarensis Mayr, 1865: 31, pl. 1, fig. 1 (w.) INDIA (Nicobar Is).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-locality: India: Nicobar Is, Kar Nicobar (no collector’s name).
  • Type-depository: NHMW.
  • Combination in C. (Myrmothrix): Forel, 1914a: 269;
  • combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Emery, 1920b: 255;
  • combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 95.
  • [Misspelled as micobarensis by Forel, 1892j: 229 (in key).]
  • Status as species: Emery, 1889b: 513; Forel, 1892j: 240; Dalla Torre, 1893: 244; Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Bingham, 1903: 364; Forel, 1903d: 408; Forel, 1907e: 19; Wheeler, W.M. 1913e: 237; Viehmeyer, 1914a: 115; Santschi, 1920h: 174; Wheeler, W.M. 1921c: 545; Wheeler, W.M. 1923b: 5; Santschi, 1924c: 114; Emery, 1925b: 95; Wheeler, W.M. 1927d: 10; Donisthorpe, 1929a: 448; Mukerjee, 1930: 158; Menozzi, 1932d: 9; Menozzi, 1939a: 317 (in key); Teranishi, 1940: 68; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 249; Wang, C., Xiao & Wu, 1989a: 223 (in key); Wang, C. & Wu, 1994: 30 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 113; Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 179; Zhou, 2001b: 205; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 15; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 95; Terayama, 2009: 216; Mohanraj, et al. 2010: 6; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 69; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 29; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 25; Jaitrong, Guénard, et al. 2016: 28; Khachonpisitsak, et al. 2020: 43.
  • Distribution: China, India (+ Nicobar Is), Indonesia (Sumatra), Malaysia (Peninsula), Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus monticola, rabbani.

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