Camponotus ager

This ant was observed visiting the extrafloral nectaries of Tocoyena formosa plants occurring in a southeastern Brazilian cerrado study-site (Sanz-Veiga et al. 2017)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Nomenclature

 * . Formica agra Smith, F. 1858b: 47 (w.) BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro), COLOMBIA.
 * Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 5;
 * combination in C. (Myromgigas): Forel, 1912i: 91;
 * combination in C. (Dinomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 268;
 * combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 83.
 * Status as species: Mayr, 1863: 411; Roger, 1863b: 5; Mayr, 1886c: 356; Dalla Torre, 1893: 221; Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Forel, 1899c: 137; Emery, 1903: 77; Forel, 1911c: 310; Wheeler, W.M. 1916c: 14; Wheeler, W.M. 1916d: 330; Luederwaldt, 1918: 50; Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 15; Emery, 1925b: 83; Borgmeier, 1927c: 147; Menozzi, 1935b: 200; Kempf, 1961b: 522; Kempf, 1972a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 84; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 227; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 751.
 * [Note: Forel, 1886f: 167, suggests that ager may be the minor worker of egregius.]

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
 * Forel A. 1911. Ameisen des Herrn Prof. v. Ihering aus Brasilien (Sao Paulo usw.) nebst einigen anderen aus Südamerika und Afrika (Hym.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1911: 285-312.
 * Franco W., N. Ladino, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Dejean, J. Orivel, M. Fichaux, S. Groc, M. Leponce, and R. M. Feitosa. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543.
 * INBio Collection (via Gbif)
 * Kempf W. W. 1961. A survey of the ants of the soil fauna in Surinam (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4: 481-524.
 * Kempf W. W. 1978. A preliminary zoogeographical analysis of a regional ant fauna in Latin America. 114. Studia Entomologica 20: 43-62.
 * Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
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 * Luederwaldt H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Rev. Mus. Paul. 10: 29-64.
 * Menozzi C. 1935. Spedizione del Prof. Nello Beccari nella Guiana Britannica. Hymenoptera-Formicidae. Redia. 21: 189-203.
 * Ribas C. R., J. H. Schoereder, M. Pic, and S. M. Soares. 2003. Tree heterogeneity, resource availability, and larger scale processes regulating arboreal ant species richness. Austral Ecology 28(3): 305-314.
 * Schoereder J. H., T. G. Sobrinho, M. S. Madureira, C. R. Ribas, and P. S. Oliveira. 2010. The arboreal ant community visiting extrafloral nectaries in the Neotropical cerrado savanna. Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 3: 3-27.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1916. Ants collected in British Guiana by the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during 1911. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35: 1-14.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45: 1-16.
 * da Silva de Oliveira A. B., and F. A. Schmidt. 2019. Ant assemblages of Brazil nut trees Bertholletia excelsa in forest and pasture habitats in the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon. Biodiversity and Conservation 28(2): 329-344.