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Camponotus scratius nuntius
| Camponotus scratius nuntius | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. scratius |
| Subspecies: | C. scratius nuntius |
| Trinomial name | |
| Camponotus scratius nuntius Forel, 1907 | |
Heterick (2021) cannot determine the identity of this taxon and therefore treats it as species inquirenda.
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
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- nuntius. Camponotus scratius var. nuntius Forel, 1907h: 306 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
- Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Stat. 67, Dick Hartog Brown Station, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1925b: 112.
- Subspecies of scratius: Emery, 1925b: 112; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 119; Taylor, 1987a: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 114; McArthur, 2014: 72; Heterick, 2021: 7 (in list, as nomen inquirendum).
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Holotype, probably destroyed in ZMHB (Berlin) in WW II, Dirk Hartog Brown Station, Western Australia, Australia.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker minor. Length 3.6 mm. Pronotum, mesonotum and basal surface of the metanotum form, like michaelseni almost only one (only very weak or scarcely convex) straight surface. Behind the metanotum is almost like a blunt edge. But the declivity although somewhat convex, is almost vertical, high, is separated distinctly from the base surface. Thorax, antennae and the whole head brownish red. Everything else is similar to the worker minor of the type.
This variety is bigger than the type but only the minor worker is known.
Station 67, Dirk Hartog Brown Station. (Ein einziger )
References
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 112, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))
- Forel, A. 1907j. Formicidae. In: Michaelsen, W., Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7. Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310. (page 306, worker described)
- 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).
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 119, Subspecies of scratius)