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Camponotus rubiginosus
| Camponotus rubiginosus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. rubiginosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus rubiginosus Mayr, 1876
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -16.816° to -17.33857°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
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
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- rubiginosus. Camponotus rubiginosus Mayr, 1876: 66 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Combination in C. (Myrmogonia): Forel, 1914a: 269;
- combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1920b: 257;
- combination in C. (Thlipsepinotus): Santschi, 1928e: 483.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 250; Emery, 1896d: 374 (in list); Emery, 1925b: 112; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 118; Taylor, 1987a: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 121; McArthur, 2007a: 340; McArthur, 2014: 132.
Type Material
- Syntype, worker(s), Peak Downs, Queensland, Australia.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker 5 -10 mm long. Ferruginous, last 3 segments of the abdomen black, in the major worker the head and mandibles are darker, meso and meta thorax anteriorly black, in the minor worker head and thorax black, clypeus, joints and posterior of metanotum (= pronotum) more or less chestnut or ferruginous; with erect pilosity and short rigid erect hairs on tibias, pubescence scattered very fine adpressed; glossy finely coriaceous with scattered punctations, gaster with very fine transverse striations; clypeus in the major worker without keel and with anterior margin bidentate, in the minor worker a keel and the anterior border bowed without teeth; thorax is short, from the middle of the pronotum to the declining part of the metanotum the dorsum is nearly straight, declining part of the metanotum (= propodeum)is subvertical, below oblique; node on the petiole is egg shaped.
Peak Downs,Queensland.
References
- Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))
- Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 269, Combination in C. (Myrmogonia))
- 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).
- Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 66, soldier, worker described)
- Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 483, Combination in C. (Thlipsepinotus))