Camponotus claviscapus
Camponotus claviscapus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Camponotus |
Species: | C. claviscapus |
Binomial name | |
Camponotus claviscapus Forel, 1899 | |
Subspecies | |
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Gillette et al. (2015) in a Chaipas, Mexico field study of twig-nesting ants in coffee plants found C. brettesi nesting within one sampled plot of plants at 950m.
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 22.29448° to -12.85291667°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago (type locality), Venezuela.
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. |
Biology
DaRocha et al. (2015) studied the diversity of ants found in bromeliads of a single large tree of Erythrina, a common cocoa shade tree, at an agricultural research center in Ilhéus, Brazil. Forty-seven species of ants were found in 36 of 52 the bromeliads examined. Bromeliads with suspended soil and those that were larger had higher ant diversity. C. claviscapus was found in 4 different bromeliads but was associated with twigs and bark cavities, rather than suspended soil or litter, of the plants.
Flight Period
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Source: Kaspari et al., 2001.
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Castes
Worker
Images from AntWeb
Worker. Specimen code jtlc000004447. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by JTLC. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- claviscapus. Camponotus claviscapus Forel, 1899c: 152 (s.w.q.) TRINIDAD.
- [Camponotus claviscapus Emery, 1896g: 36. Nomen nudum(attributed to Forel).]
- Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 219 (l.).
- Combination in C. (Colobopsis): Forel, 1901h: 66;
- combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1912i: 90;
- combination in C. (Pseudocolobopsis): Emery, 1920b: 259; Mackay & Mackay, 2018: 23.
- Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1905b: 133; Wheeler, W.M. 1907a: 277; Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914: 56; Mann, 1916: 479; Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 16; Emery, 1925b: 157; Kempf, 1972a: 63; Bolton, 1995b: 92; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 255; McArthur, 2012: 162; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 756.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus lehmanni, occultus, subcarinatus.
Description
References
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- DaRocha, W. D., S. P. Ribeiro, F. S. Neves, G. W. Fernandes, M. Leponce, and J. H. C. Delabie. 2015. How does bromeliad distribution structure the arboreal ant assemblage (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on a single tree in a Brazilian Atlantic forest agroecosystem? Myrmecological News. 21:83-92.
- Emery, C. 1896g. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. XVII-XXV. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 28: 33-107 (page 36, Camponotus claviscapus Emery, nomen nudum, attributed to Forel.)
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