Camponotus variegatus dulcis

Camponotus variegatus dulcis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. variegatus
Subspecies:	C. variegatus dulcis
Trinomial name
Camponotus variegatus dulcis Dalla Torre, 1893 Specimen Label

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Camponotus of India

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 22.1983° to 22.1983°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Philippines.
Oriental Region: India, Myanmar (type locality), Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
Palaearctic Region: China.

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.

• dulcis. Camponotus mitis var. dulcis Dalla Torre, 1893: 243.
  • [First available use of Camponotus rubripes r. mitis var. dulcis Emery, 1889b: 511 (w.) MYANMAR; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-locality: Myanmar (“Burma”): Bhamo, 1885-87 (L. Fea).
  • Type-depository: MSNG.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1895k: 477; Emery, 1896d: 370 (in list); Forel, 1903d: 408; Forel, 1912a: 75; Forel, 1913f: 200; Emery, 1920c: 7; Teranishi, 1940: 60.
  • Subspecies of mitis: Bingham, 1903: 356.
  • Subspecies of variegatus: Emery, 1925b: 96, Wheeler, W.M. 1927b: 46; Wheeler, W.M. 1927d: 10; Wheeler, W.M. 1927h: 101; Wheeler, W.M. 1928c: 32; Wheeler, W.M. 1929f: 9; Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 63; Wheeler, W.M. 1930h: 76; Yasumatsu, 1940a: 69; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 251; Onoyama, 1980: 200; Bolton, 1995b: 97; Lin & Wu, 2003: 61; Terayama, 2009: 216; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 70; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 30; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 26; Rasheed, et al. 2019: 429; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 40.
  • Distribution: China, India, Japan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tawian.

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, variety of mitis)
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 97, catalogue)
• Brassard, F., Leong, C.-M., Chan, H.-H., Guénard, B. 2021. High diversity in urban areas: How comprehensive sampling reveals high ant species richness within one of the most urbanized regions of the world. Diversity 13, 358 (doi:10.3390/d13080358).
• Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 243, worker described)
• 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. 1889c. Formiche di Birmania e del Tenasserim raccolte da Leonardo Fea (1885-87). [part]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 27[=(2)(7): 485-512 (page 511, First available use of Camponotus rubripes r. mitis var. dulcis; unavailable name.)
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 96, variety of variegatus)
• Lee, C.-C., Weng, Y.-M., Lai, L.-C., Suarez, A.V., Wu, W.-J., Lin, C.-C., Yang, C.-C.S. 2020. Analysis of recent interception records reveals frequent transport of arboreal ants and potential predictors for ant invasion in Taiwan. Insects 11, 356 (doi:10.3390/INSECTS11060356).
• Rasheed, M.T., Bodlah, I., Fareen, A.G., Wachkoo, A.A., Huang, X., Akbar, S.A. 2019. A checklist of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Pakistan. Sociobiology 66(3), 426-439 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4330).
• Wheeler, W. M. 1927d. Chinese ants collected by Professor S. F. Light and Professor N. Gist Gee. American Museum Novitates 255: 1-12 (page 10, variety of variegatus)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1928c. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in China. Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agrar. R. Sc. Super. Agric. 22: 3-38 (page 32, variety of variegatus)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929g. Some ants from China and Manchuria. American Museum Novitates 361: 1-11 (page 9, variety of variegatus)