Camponotus variegatus bacchus

Camponotus variegatus bacchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. variegatus
Subspecies:	C. variegatus bacchus
Trinomial name
Camponotus variegatus bacchus (Smith, F., 1858)

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Camponotus of India

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India, Sri Lanka (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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• bacchus. Formica bacchus Smith, F. 1858b: 21 (w.) SRI LANKA.
  • Type-material: holotype (?) worker.
  • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
  • Type-locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data).
  • Type-depository: BMNH.
  • Smith, F. 1878b: 10 (q.m.).
  • Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 3;
  • combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 95.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1907e: 19; Forel, 1909e: 397; Forel, 1911d: 382; Forel, 1911i: 227; Forel, 1913e: 664; Forel, 1913k: 125; Emery, 1920c: 7.
  • Status as species: Mayr, 1863: 412; Roger, 1863b: 3; Mayr, 1865: 27; Smith, F. 1871a: 304; Smith, F. 1873: viii; Mayr, 1877: 20 (in list).
  • Junior synonym of mitis: Mayr, 1879: 646; Mayr, 1886c: 354; Forel, 1886f: 143, 153; Emery, 1887a: 213; Forel, 1892j: 242; Dalla Torre, 1893: 243; Emery, 1896d: 370; Tiwari, 1999: 72 (error).
  • Subspecies of sylvaticus: Forel, 1879a: 67; Mayr, 1880: 22.
  • Subspecies of mitis: Bingham, 1903: 356.
  • Subspecies of variegatus: Emery, 1925b: 95; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 251; Bolton, 1995b: 87; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 26; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 39.
  • Distribution: India, Sri Lanka.

References

• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 356, revived from synonymy as variety of mitis)
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 87, catalogue)
• Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 243, junior synonym of mitis)
• Dhadwal, T., Bharti, H. 2023. Two new species of the genus Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with five new records from India. European Journal of Taxonomy 901, 1-51 (doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.901.2317).
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 95, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 95, variety of variegatus)
• Forel, A. 1879a. Études myrmécologiques en 1879 (deuxième partie [1re partie en 1878]). Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 16: 53-128 (page 67, race of sylvaticus)
• Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. (page 27, senior synonym of ventralis)
• Mayr, G. 1879. Beiträge zur Ameisen-Fauna Asiens. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 28: 645-686 (page 646, junior synonym of mitis)
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berl. Entomol. Z. 7(B Beilage: 1-65 (page 3, combination in Camponotus)
• Smith, F. 1858b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. (page 21, worker described)
• Smith, F. 1878b. Scientific results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph.D. Hymenoptera. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing (Government of India), 22 pp. (page 10, queen, male described)