Camponotus planus

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Camponotus planus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. planus
Binomial name
Camponotus planus
Smith, F., 1877

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Specimen labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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

Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code casent0173218. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CDRS, Galapagos, Ecuador.
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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0173219. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CDRS, Galapagos, Ecuador.
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Male (alate). Specimen code casent0173220. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CDRS, Galapagos, Ecuador.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0173221. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CDRS, Galapagos, Ecuador.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus isabelensisWorker. Specimen code castype00455-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus isabelensisWorker. Specimen code castype00455-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus isabelensisWorker. Specimen code castype00455-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus indefessusWorker. Specimen code castype00456-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus indefessusWorker. Specimen code castype00456-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus indefessusWorker. Specimen code castype00456-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus santacruzensisWorker. Specimen code castype00457-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus santacruzensisMale (alate). Specimen code castype00457-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus santacruzensisQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code castype00457-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus fidelisWorker. Specimen code castype00458-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus fidelisWorker. Specimen code castype00458-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus fidelisWorker. Specimen code castype00458-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus fernandinensisWorker. Specimen code castype00459. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus pinzonensisWorker. Specimen code castype00460-01. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus pinzonensisWorker. Specimen code castype00460-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Camponotus planus pinzonensisQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code castype00460-03. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Lectotype of Camponotus planus hephaestusWorker. Specimen code castype03690. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Nomenclature

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

  • planus. Camponotus planus Smith, F. 1877a: 83 (w.) ECUADOR (Galapagos Is).
    • Type-material: holotype (?) worker.
    • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
    • Type-locality: Ecuador: Galapagos Is, Charles I. (= Floreana I.), 1835, (Voyage of the Beagle) (C. Darwin).
    • Type-depository: BMNH.
    • Wheeler, W.M. 1919c: 287 (s.w.q.m.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmorhachis): Emery, 1920b: 260;
    • combination in C. (Myrmocladoecus): Wheeler, W.M. 1924a: 118.
    • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 248; Emery, 1896d: 377 (in list); Wheeler, W.M. 1919c: 287; Wheeler, W.M. 1924a: 119; Emery, 1925b: 167; Stitz, 1932a: 371; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 44; Linsley & Usinger, 1966: 177; Kempf, 1972a: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 118; Herrera, Tocora, et al. 2024: 166.
    • Distribution: Ecuador (Galapagos Is).
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus fernandinensis, fidelis, hephaestus, indefessus (unresolved junior homonym), isabelensis, peregrinus, pinzonensis, sansalvadorensis, santacruzensis.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Clark, David B., Concepcion Guayasamin, Olga Pazmino, Cecilia Donoso, Yolanda Paez de Villacis. 1982. The Tramp Ant Wasmannia auropunctata. Biotropica. 14 (3):196-207.
  • Dekoninck W., F. Fernandez, H. W. Herrera, N. Wauters, G. Brito, L. Jumbo, D. Marin-Armijos, and T. Delsinne. 2014. Results of ant collections on Santa Cruz Island within the framework of the 2012 Global Taxonomy Initiative Ant Course at Galápagos (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société royale belge d’Entomologie 150: 250-255 .
  • Emery C. 1886. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna 5: 363-382
  • Herrera H. W. 2013. CDF Checklist of Galapagos Ants - FCD Lista de especies de Hormigas Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://checklists.datazone.darwinfoundation.org/terrestrial-invertebrates/formicidae/ Last updated: 01 Mar 2013
  • Herrera H. W., and C. E. Causton. 2010. First inventory of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Baltra Island, Galapagos. Galapagos Research 67: 13-17.
  • Herrera H.W., and L. Roque-Albelo. 2007. Lista anotada de las hormigas de las Islas Galapagos, Ecuador. Fundación Charles Darwin. 13 pp
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Kusnezov N. 1963. Zoogeografia de las hormigas en sudamerica. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 19: 25-222
  • Linsley E. G., and R. L. Usinger. 1966. Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 33: 113-196.
  • Pezzatti, Boris, Irzan, Trimurti and Cherix, Daniel. 1998. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Floreana: Lost Paradise?. Noticias de Galapagos. 59:11-20.
  • Stitz, H. 1932. Formicidae of the Wollebaek Galapagos Expedition. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 71:367-372.
  • Von Aesch, Leila. 2006. Introduced Ants in Galapagos (Floreana Island): Importance of Competition, Coexistence and Aggressive Behaviors. (Chapter 1 published: von Aech, L. and D. Cherix. 2005. Introduced ant species and mechanisms of competition on Floreana Island. Sociobiology 45(2): 463-481.)
  • Wauters N., W. Dekoninck, F. Hendrickx, H.W. Herrera, and D. Fournier. 2016. Habitat a ssociation a nd coexistence of endemic and introduced ant species in the Galápagos Islands. Ecological Entomology 41, 40–50.
  • Wheeler, William Morton. 1933. Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition. California Academy of Sciences. 21(6):57-64.