Camponotus claviscapus

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Camponotus claviscapus
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

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Specimen labels

Subspecies

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

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

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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

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.

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Camponotus claviscapus jtlc000004447 head 1.jpgCamponotus claviscapus jtlc000004447 profile 1.jpgCamponotus claviscapus jtlc000004447 dorsal 1.jpgCamponotus claviscapus jtlc000004447 label 1.jpg
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

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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  • INBio Collection (via Gbif)
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