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Camponotus radiatus
| Camponotus radiatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. radiatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus radiatus Forel, 1892
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 21.227595° to 11.83333333°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (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
Images from AntWeb
    
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0906952. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMUK, London, UK. |
   
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| Syntype of Camponotus radiatus. Worker. Specimen code casent0910464. Photographer Will Ericson, 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.
- radiatus. Camponotus radiatus Forel, 1892j: 233 (w.) INDIA (Karnataka, Kerala).
- Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
- Type-localities: India: Kanara (E.H. Aitken), India: Thana (Gleadow).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- [Misspelled as radiates by Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 25.]
- Combination in C. (Camponotus): Forel, 1914a: 266;
- combination in C. (Myrmotrema): Emery, 1920b: 258.
- Status as species: Emery, 1896d: 377 (in list); Bingham, 1903: 371; Forel, 1914a: 266; Emery, 1925b: 130; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 253; Bolton, 1995b: 119; Tiwari, 1999: 74; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 104; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 25.
- Distribution: India.
Description
References
- Baidya, P., Bagchi, S. 2021. Influence of human land use and invasive species on beta diversity of tropical ant assemblages. Insect Conservation and Diversity, icad.12536 (doi:10.1111/icad.12536).
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 119, catalogue)
- Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 258, combination in C. (Myrmotrema))
- Forel, A. 1892k. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part I. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 219-245 (page 233, worker described)
- Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 266, combination in C. (Camponotus))
- Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Anu A., and T. K. Sabu. 2007. Biodiversity analysis of forest litter ant assembalges in the Wayanad region of Western Ghats using taxonomic and conventional diversity measures. Journal of Insect Science 7(6): 1-13.
- Bhoje P. M., K. Shilpa, and T. V. Sathe. 2014. Diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Kolhapur district of Maharashtra, India. Uttar Pradesh J. Zool. 34(1): 23-25.
- Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128
- Karmaly K. A.; S. Sumesh, T. P. Rabeesh, and L. Kishore. 2010. A checklist of ants of Thirunelli in Wayanad, Kerala. J. of the Bombay Natural History Society 107(1): 64-67.
- Sabu T. K., P. J. Vineesh, and K. V. Vinod. 2008. Diversity of forest litter-inhabiting ants along elevations in the Wayanad region of the Western Ghats. Journal of Insect Science 8: 69.