Camponotus sicheli

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Camponotus sicheli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species group: lateralis
Species complex: UNPLACED
Species: C. sicheli
Binomial name
Camponotus sicheli
Mayr, 1866

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 41.674167° to 28.361944°.

   
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality), Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Gibraltar, Iberian Peninsula, Malta.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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 casent0914013. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.
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Syntype of Camponotus sicheli. Worker. Specimen code casent0915679. Photographer Harald Bruckner, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMW, Vienna, Austria.

Nomenclature

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

  • sicheli. Camponotus sicheli Mayr, 1866a: 488, pl., fig. 2 (w.) ALGERIA.
    • Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Algeria: Bone (no collector’s name) (received from Sichel).
    • Type-depository: NHMW.
    • De Stefani, 1889: 144 (q.); Forel, 1890a: lxvi (q.m.).
    • Combination in C. (Orthonotomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 273;
    • combination in C. (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1920b: 257.
    • Subspecies of lateralis: Karavaiev, 1912a: 20.
    • Subspecies of piceus: Emery, 1925a: 66.
    • Status as species: Mayr, 1877: 20 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 449; Forel, 1879a: 94; Emery, 1880: 389; André, 1882a: 150 (in key); Emery, 1884a: 376; Forel, 1886f: 181; De Stefani, 1889: 144 (redescription); Forel, 1890a: lxvi; Saunders, E. 1890: 202; Emery, 1891b: 21; Dalla Torre, 1893: 252; Emery, 1893c: 88; Forel, 1894d: 3; Forel, 1895d: 227; Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Emery, 1914d: 159; Emery, 1916b: 226; Stitz, 1917: 351; Santschi, 1919e: 248; Lomnicki, 1925b: 3; Emery, 1925b: 121; Santschi, 1925g: 359; Menozzi, 1926b: 182; Donisthorpe, 1927a: 9; Santschi, 1931a: 13; Santschi, 1936c: 208; Bernard, 1956b: 260; Ceballos, 1956: 313; Cagniant, 1966b: 281; Cagniant, 1968a: 146; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 84; Cagniant, 1970c: 37; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 195; Baroni Urbani, 1976: 216; Collingwood, 1978: 91 (in key); Cagniant & Espadaler, 1993: 436 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 124; Mei, 1995: 768; Poldi, et al. 1995: 7; Espadaler, 1997b: 27; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 24 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 42 (see note in bibliography).
    • Senior synonym of nigra: Cagniant, 2006: 194.
    • Distribution: Algeria, Gibraltar, Malta, Portugal, Spain (+ Balearics, Canary Is), Tunisia.
  • nigra. Camponotus (Myrmentoma) sicheli var. nigra Emery, 1925b: 121.
    • [First available use of Camponotus lateralis subsp. sicheli var. nigra Karavaiev, 1912a: 21 (w.) ALGERIA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (attributed to Forel).]
    • Type-material: 4 syntype workers.
    • Type-locality: Algeria: El Kantara, iii.-v.1911 (W. Karawajew).
    • Type-depository: SIZK.
    • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925a: 71.
    • Subspecies of sicheli: Bolton, 1995b: 113.
    • Junior synonym of sicheli: Cagniant, 2006: 194.

Taxonomic Notes

This taxon was collected in the city of Alger. There are no types in the Gustav Mayr collection in Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna. The original description suggests a relatedness to Camponotus guanchus, Camponotus ruber and Camponotus sicheli niger but it does not allow conclusions on synonymies with these taxa (Seifert, 2019).

Description

References

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