Camponotus sexguttatus ornatus

Camponotus sexguttatus ornatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. sexguttatus
Subspecies:	C. sexguttatus ornatus
Trinomial name
Camponotus sexguttatus ornatus Emery, 1894

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Bolivia (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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• ornatus. Camponotus ruficeps var. ornatus Emery, 1894c: 173 (s.w.) BOLIVIA.
  • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: Bolivia: River Beni, Misiones Mostenes (L. Balzan).
  • Type-depository: MSNG.
  • Combination in C. (Myrmosphincta): Crawley, 1916b: 376.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, W.M. 1923c: 8 (in key).
  • Subspecies of sexguttatus: Emery, 1894f: 2; Emery, 1896d: 375 (in list); Crawley, 1916b: 376; Emery, 1925b: 152; Kusnezov, 1952d: 224; Kempf, 1972a: 58; Bolton, 1995b: 115.
  • Distribution: Bolivia, Guyana.

References

• Crawley, W. C. 1916b. Ants from British Guiana. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8(17): 366-378 (page 376, Combination in C. (Myrmosphincta))
• Crawley, W. C. 1916b. Ants from British Guiana. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8(17): 366-378 (page 376, Variety of sexguttatus)
• Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 26: 137-241 (page 173, soldier, worker described)
• Emery, C. 1894g. Camponotus sexguttatus Fab. e C. sexguttatus Sm. et auct. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 9(1 187: 1-4 (page 2, Variety of sexguttatus)
• 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 375, Variety of sexguttatus)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1923d. Report on the ants collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. Stud. Nat. Hist. Iowa Univ. 10(3 3: 3-9 (page 8, Variety of sexguttatus)