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Camponotus peseshus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. peseshus |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus peseshus Bolton, 1995
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia (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
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Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- nitidiceps. Camponotus (Myrmophyma) nitidiceps Viehmeyer, 1925b: 141 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: Australia: New South Wales, Liverpool (H. Overbeck), New South Wales, Trial Bay (H. Overbeck).
- Type-depository: MNHU.
- [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus (Myrmotarsus) nigricans subsp. nitidiceps Viehmeyer, 1916a: 156.]
- Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 118; Taylor, 1987a: 14.
- Replacement name: Camponotus peseshus Bolton, 1995b: 117.
- peseshus. Camponotus peseshus Bolton, 1995b: 117.
- Replacement name for Camponotus (Myrmophyma) nitidiceps Viehmeyer, 1925b: 141. [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus (Myrmotarsus) nigricans subsp. nitidiceps Viehmeyer, 1916a: 156.]
- Status as species: McArthur, 2014: 156.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Camponotus (Myrmophyma) nitidiceps Viehmeyer, 1925: Syntype, 2 workers, 1 queen, Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia, National Museum of Natural History.
- Camponotus (Myrmophyma) nitidiceps Viehmeyer, 1925: Syntype, 2 workers, queen(s), Liverpool and Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia, Berlin Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker major. The head form is very much like testaceipes, its sides at most a little more strongly convex and the lobe of the clypeus has a deep semicircular indentation, on both sides of the indentation always a dimple with hair in it. The scape extends over the posterior head by at least it greatest diameter. Mandibles with 5 teeth. Thorax similar to claripes, but with a sharper epinotum angle. Node thicker than with the latter, posterior flat, anterior convex, summit blunt. The whole body finely reticulate, glossy, the front of the head scarcely less glossy. None, or only simple coarse punctations on the anterior head. Pilosity as with claripes but no hairs on the cheeks; the tibias have a row of fine spines on the flexor surface. Black, limbs yellow, funiculus brownish yellow.
Worker minor. The lobe of the clypeus has a straight border, apart from the narrower head and flat back of head, quite like the worker major. Easily distinguished from the similar claripes by the wider head, the number of teeth on the mandibles, the cheeks free of bristles; the thicker node and darker coloring. Length,7.5-10 mm.
Queen Head narrower than the worker major much weaker narrowing anterior than with claripes, with strong rounded posterior corners. Scape extends over the posterior head by a generous third. Wings brownish. Length 10-11 mm.
Liverpool, Trial Bay. Nest in a rotten branch, high in a tree, in addition single specimens in scrub and forest.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 117, Replacement name for nitidiceps: new name, catalogue)
- Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
- Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
- Viehmeyer, H. 1925b. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Schluss.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 139-149 (page 141, [Junior primary homonym of nitidiceps Viehmeyer, 1916a: 156.])
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Viehmeyer H. 1925. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Schluss.). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 14: 139-149.