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Camponotus selene
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. selene |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus selene (Emery, 1889)
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 25.5667° to 25.5667°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India, Myanmar (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: China.
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.
- selene. Polyrhachis selene Emery, 1889b: 518, pl. 11, figs. 18, 19 (w.) MYANMAR.
- Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: Myanmar (“Burma”): Tenasserim, Kawkareet, 1885-87 (L. Fea).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- Combination in Camponotus: Emery, 1896d: 376;
- combination in C. (Myrmorhachis): Forel, 1912i: 92;
- combination in C. (Myrmacantha): Emery, 1920b: 258;
- combination in C. (Orthonotomyrmex): Santschi, 1921f: 310.
- Status as species: Forel, 1893c: 28; Dalla Torre, 1893: 269; Forel, 1895e: 456; Emery, 1895k: 480; Emery, 1896d 376 (in list); Forel, 1902d: 286; Forel, 1903a: 711; Bingham, 1903: 408; Emery, 1925b: 125; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 242, 306 (combinations in Camponotus, Polyrhachis, respectively); Wang, C., Xiao & Wu, 1989a: 222 (in key); Wu, J. & Wang, 1992: 1316; Wang, C. & Wu, 1994: 28 (in key); Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 171; Bolton, 1995b: 123; Dorow, 1995: 65; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 355; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 111; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 69; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 29; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 26.
- Distribution: China, India, Myanmar.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus obtusatus.
Description
References
- Dhadwal, T., Bharti, H. 2023. Two new species of the genus Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with five new records from India. European Journal of Taxonomy 901, 1-51 (doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.901.2317).
- Emery, C. 1889d. Formiche di Birmania e del Tenasserim raccolte da Leonardo Fea (1885-87). [concl.]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 27[=(2)(7): 513-520 (page 518, pl. 11, figs. 18, 19 worker described)
- Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)5:363-382 (page 376, Combination in Camponotus)
- 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. (Myrmacantha))
- 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. (Myrmorhachis))
- Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 92, Combination in C. (Myrmorhachis))
- Jaitrong, W., Jeenthong, T. 2022. A new species of the ant subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Ashmead, 1906 in the genus Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Thailand. The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 16, 33–39 (doi:10.14456/THNHMJ.2022.4).
- Santschi, F. 1921f. Retouches aux sous-genres de Camponotus. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 61: 310-312 (page 310, Combination in C. (Orthonotomyrmex))
- Subedi, I.P., Budha, P.B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L., Yamane, S. 2021. First record of the ant subgenus Orthonotomyrmex of the genus Camponotus from Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoodiversity 55, 279–284 (doi:10.15407/zoo2021.04.279).
- Wu, J. & Wang, C. 1992. Formicidae (pp. 1301-1320). In Peng, J. et al. Iconography of Forest Insects in Hunan, China. Forest Bureau of Hunan Province: 1473 pp. Hunan Scientific and Technical Publishing House.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- 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.
- Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
- Cheng D., Z. Chen, and S. Zhou. 2015. An analysis on the ant fauna of Jinzhongshan Nature Reserve in Gunagxi, China. Journal of Guangxi Normal University: Natural Science Edition 33(3): 129.137.
- Emery C. 1889. Formiche di Birmania e del Tenasserim raccolte da Leonardo Fea (1885-87). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 27: 485-520.
- Forel A. 1893. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part III. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 8: 17-36.
- Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
- Li Z.h. 2006. List of Chinese Insects. Volume 4. Sun Yat-sen University Press
- Mathew R., and R. N. Tiwari. 2000. Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Pp. 251-409 in: Director; Zoological Survey of India (ed.) 2000. Fauna of of Meghalaya. Part 7. [State Fauna Series 4.] Insecta 2000. Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 621 pp.