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Camponotus subnitidus longinodis
| Camponotus subnitidus longinodis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. subnitidus |
| Subspecies: | C. subnitidus longinodis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Camponotus subnitidus longinodis Forel, 1915 | |
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
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Estimated Abundance
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- longinodis. Camponotus (Dinomyrmex) subnitidus var. longinodis Forel, 1915b: 96 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Type-material: holotype minor worker.
- Type-locality: Australia: Queensland, Cape York Peninsula (E. Mjöberg).
- Type-depository: unknown (either MHNG or NHRS).
- Clark, 1930a: 119 (s.q.).
- Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 91.
- Status as species: Clark, 1930a: 119 (redescription).
- Subspecies of subnitidus: Emery, 1925b: 91; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 120; Taylor, 1987a: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 109.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Camponotus (Dinomyrmex) subnitidus longinodis Forel, 1915: Syntype, apparently destroyed, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 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 12.8 mm. Larger than the type. Differentiated from it by the strange cylindrical node which is 2.5ÿtimes longer than wide and nowhere forms a distinct summit. Its first half beyond a short anterior face is almost horizontal, hardly rising at all, the second half goes through a curve from the first is simply steeply sloping. The middle of the base surface of the epinotum of this single specimen is saddle shaped (by chance?) quite like the type.
Cape York Peninsula. Queensland.
References
- Clark, J. 1930a. Some new Australian Formicidae. Proc. R. Soc. Vic. (n.s.) 42: 116-128 (page 119, soldier, queen described)
- Clark, J. 1930a. Some new Australian Formicidae. Proc. R. Soc. Vic. (n.s.) 42: 116-128 (page 119, Raised to species)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 91, Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))
- Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 96, worker described)
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 120, Subspecies of subnitidus)