Camponotus tasmani

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Camponotus tasmani
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. tasmani
Binomial name
Camponotus tasmani
Forel, 1902

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -21.966° to -32.05°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

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

Nomenclature

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

  • tasmani. Camponotus tasmani Forel, 1902h: 503 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmocamelus): Forel, 1914a: 270;
    • combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1920b: 257; Santschi, 1928e: 482.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 112; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 120; Taylor, 1987a: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 126; McArthur, 2007a: 316; McArthur, 2010: 38; McArthur, 2014: 160.

Type Material

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker. Length 6.8 to 8.5 mm. Closely resembles ephippium so much at first sight that one is confused by it. It differs as follows: It is smaller, the clypeus is less projecting or lobed in front, without a keel or sub keeled. The scapes, shorter, exceed the occiput by less than 1/2 their length (by more than 1/2 in the case of ephippium). Funicles less thin. The pro-mesonotum is more strongly convex, very humped and the profile of the metanotum is more distinctly concave. The limbs appear to be shorter. The whole body,the limbs and the scapes are abundantly hairy with a long whitish pilosity more abundant than that of intrepidus or suffusus. Thorax entirely ferruginous red; limbs, antennae and mandibles brown, head and gaster black. Pubescence more abundant than slesX type, of a grayish yellow, slightly golden. Otherwise like ephippium.

South Australia (my collection)

This species is particularly distinct because of its pilosity and by its limbs which are shorter and thinner.

References

  • Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))
  • Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 503, soldier, worker described)
  • Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 270, Combination in C. (Myrmocamelus))
  • Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 482, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.