Camponotus pressipes

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Camponotus pressipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. pressipes
Binomial name
Camponotus pressipes
Emery, 1893

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines.

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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Syntype of Camponotus pressipesQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0905439. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

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

  • pressipes. Camponotus pressipes Emery, 1893g: 268 (footnote) (q.) BORNEO (no state data), WEST MALAYSIA.
    • Combination in C. (Myrmotarsus): Forel, 1912i: 92.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1896d: 375 (in list); Forel, 1901h: 71; Forel, 1912n: 67; Forel, 1913k: 129; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 109; Emery, 1925b: 135; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 240; Baltazar, 1966: 272; Bolton, 1995b: 118; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 37.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus errans.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics