Camponotus thoracicus

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Camponotus thoracicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. thoracicus
Binomial name
Camponotus thoracicus
(Fabricius, 1804)

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Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 43.283889° to 24.633333°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality), Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Türkiye.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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

Worker

Images from AntWeb

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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus maculatus thoracicus incommodaWorker. Specimen code casent0910250. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus maculatus thoracicus minorWorker. Specimen code casent0910252. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus maculatus thoracicus sanctoidesWorker. Specimen code casent0910254. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus maculatus thoracicus betaWorker. Specimen code casent0912061. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus compressus thoracicus deltaWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0912062. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus compressus thoracicus deltaWorker. Specimen code casent0912063. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus compressus thoracicus herodesWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0912064. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus compressus thoracicus nigrithoraxWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0912065. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus compressus thoracicus nigrithoraxWorker. Specimen code casent0912066. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus maculatus thoracicus minorWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910251. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus maculatus thoracicus betaWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0912060. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus maculatus thoracicus sanctoidesWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910253. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus compressus thoracicus spahisWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0912067. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus compressus thoracicus spahisWorker. Specimen code casent0912068. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Queen

Images from AntWeb

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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Camponotus maculatus thoracicus betaQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0912059. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

  • thoracicus. Formica thoracica Fabricius, 1804: 397 (q.) (no state data, “Habitat in Barbaria”, = North African coast from Morocco to Libya).
    • [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Formica thoracica Olivier, 1792: 503 (Emery, 1921a: 25; Bolton, 1995b: 127).]
    • Emery, 1908a: 193 (s.w.m.).
    • Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 2;
    • combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1913d: 434;
    • combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 99.
    • Junior synonym of maculatus: Roger, 1862c: 285; Mayr, 1863: 400; Roger, 1863b: 2; Mayr, 1865: 27; Gerstäcker, 1871: 355; Arnold, 1922: 621.
    • Subspecies of maculatus: Forel, 1906c: 189; Forel, 1907a: 30; Forel, 1907e: 16; Emery, 1908a: 193; Forel, 1910a: 13; Karavaiev, 1910b: 9; Santschi, 1910f: 234; Karavaiev, 1911: 11; Forel, 1911d: 359; Karavaiev, 1912a: 21; Forel, 1913d: 434; Forel, 1914d: 250; Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 173; Stitz, 1917: 351; Crawley, 1920b: 178; Arnold, 1922: 630; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 959; Viehmeyer, 1923: 93; Karavaiev, 1926e: 189.
    • Subspecies of compressus: Emery, 1920c: 6; Santschi, 1921a: 116; Santschi, 1921d: 73; Emery, 1924a: 8; Emery, 1925b: 99; Santschi, 1925g: 356; Menozzi, 1927e: 117; Wheeler, W.M. 1927g: 114; Menozzi, 1927g: 380; Santschi, 1929g: 165; Menozzi, 1932e: 453; Menozzi, 1933b: 80; Finzi, 1936: 189; Santschi, 1939d: 78; Menozzi, 1940: 271; Finzi, 1940: 163; Donisthorpe, 1942a: 32; Donisthorpe, 1950e: 1067; Hamann & Klemm, 1967: 418.
    • Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 31; Emery, 1920b: 256; Pisarski, 1971a: 674; Bernard, 1971: 9; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 236; Collingwood, 1985: 283; Bolton, 1995b: 127; Cagniant, 1996b: 99; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 374; Mohamed, Zalat, et al. 2001: 44; Cagniant, 2006a: 194; Paknia, et al. 2008: 153; Collingwood, et al. 2011: 451; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8; Karaman, C. & Aktaç, 2013: 53 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 43; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 138.
    • Senior synonym of dichrous: Emery, 1908a: 193; Emery, 1925b: 99; Bolton, 1995b: 127.
    • [Note: if synonymy confirmed then dichrous is the first available replacement name.]
  • dichrous. Camponotus sylvaticus var. dichrous André, 1882a: 145.
    • [First available use of Camponotus sylvaticus subsp. maculatus var. dichrous Forel, 1879a: 65 (w.) ALGERIA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
    • Forel, 1886e: clxi (m.); Forel, 1890a: lxv (q.); Bingham, 1903: 356 (s.).
    • Subspecies of sylvaticus: Forel, 1886e: clxi.
    • Subspecies of rubripes: Forel, 1890a: lxv.
    • Subspecies of maculatus: Emery, 1891b: 19; Forel, 1892j: 243; Forel, 1893b: 432; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 228, 241 (footnote); Forel, 1894d: 41; Emery, 1894j: 9; Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Emery, 1898a: 225; Emery, 1898c: 149; Forel, 1902a: 158; Forel, 1904b: 379; Ruzsky, 1905b: 199.
    • Subspecies of barbaricus: Cagniant, 1970c: 30.
    • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 228; Bingham, 1903: 356; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 253; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 63 (error).
    • [Note: the entries in Bingham, and in Karmaly & Narendran, from India, are probably misidentifications.]
    • Junior synonym of maculatus: Forel, 1886f: 143.
    • Junior synonym of thoracicus: Emery, 1908a: 193; Emery, 1925b: 99; Bolton, 1995b: 96.
    • [Note: if synonymy confirmed then dichrous is the first available replacement name for Formica thoracica Fabricius, 1804: 397, unresolved junior primary homonym of Formica thoracica Olivier, 1792: 503.]

Description

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