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Camponotus tricolor
| Camponotus tricolor | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. tricolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus tricolor Weber, 1943 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 4.112954° to 3.383333333°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroun, Sudan (type locality).
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.
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.
- tricolor. Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) tricolor Weber, 1943c: 387, pl. 16, fig. 33 (w.) SOUTH SUDAN.
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): W slope Imatong Mts, Lotti Forest, 5.viii.1939, no. 1445 (N.A. Weber).
- Type-depository: MCZC.
- Senior synonym of tameri Bolton, 1995b: 126 (unnecessary (redundant) replacement name): McArthur, 2012: 128.
- Distribution: South Sudan.
- tameri. Camponotus tameri Bolton, 1995b: 126.
- Unnecessary (redundant) replacement name for Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) tricolor Weber, 1943c: 387.
- [Note: earlier, but no longer, congeneric with Colobopsis tricolor Stitz, 1912: 511.]
- Junior synonym of tricolor Weber: McArthur, 2012: 128.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 126, new name; replacement name for tricolor Weber, 1943., catalogue)
- Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
- Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
- Sparks, K. 2015. Australian Monomorium: Systematics and species delimitation with a focus of the M. rothsteini complex. Ph.D. thesis, University of Adelaide.
- Stitz, H. 1912. Ameisen aus Ceram und Neu-Guinea. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1912: 498-514 (page 511, junior secondary homonym of tricolor Stitz, 1912.)
- Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389 (page 387, replaced name)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
- Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.