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Camponotus somalinus pattensis
| Camponotus somalinus pattensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. somalinus |
| Subspecies: | C. somalinus pattensis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Camponotus somalinus pattensis Forel, 1907
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Kenya (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.
- pattensis. Camponotus somalinus var. pattensis Forel, 1907g: 91 (s.w.) KENYA.
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Kenya (“Ostafrika”): Patta I. (= Pate I.) (A. Voeltzkow)
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 100.
- Subspecies of somalinus: Stitz, 1911b: 392; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 961; Emery, 1925b: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 116; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 205.
- Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania.
Description
References
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 100, Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))
- Forel, A. 1907g. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. VI. Fourmis des Seychelles, Amirantes, Farquhar et Chagos. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. (2) 12: 91-94 (page 91, worker described)