Camponotus picipes

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Camponotus picipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. picipes
Binomial name
Camponotus picipes
(Olivier, 1792)

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 25.5° to -22.63784674°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana (type locality), Guyana, Mexico, Suriname.

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

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Paralectotype of Camponotus picipes pilosulusWorker. Specimen code casent0910008. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Lectotype of Camponotus picipes guatemalensisWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910009. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Paralectotype of Camponotus picipes guatemalensisWorker. Specimen code casent0910010. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Paralectotype of Camponotus picipes jasonWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910012. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Lectotype of Camponotus picipes jasonWorker. Specimen code casent0910013. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Lectotype of Camponotus picipes spengleriWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0910014. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Paralectotype of Camponotus picipes spengleriWorker. Specimen code casent0910015. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Worker. Specimen code jtlc000001696. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by JTLC.
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Worker. Specimen code jtlc000001697. Photographer Ryan Perry, 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.

  • picipes. Formica picipes Olivier, 1792: 501 (w.) FRENCH GUIANA.
    • Smith, F. 1858b: 49 (q.); Forel, 1879a: 67 (s.q.m.).
    • Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1862: 657;
    • combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Emery, 1920b: 255;
    • combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 81.
    • Subspecies of sylvaticus: Forel, 1879a: 67.
    • Subspecies of rubripes: Forel, 1886f: 143.
    • Subspecies of maculatus: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 241 (footnote), 247; Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Forel, 1899c: 134; Forel, 1901c: 135; Forel, 1901h: 69; Wheeler, W.M. 1911a: 29; Santschi, 1913h: 42; Wheeler, W.M. 1914b: 57; Crawley, 1916b: 377.
    • Status as species: Latreille, 1802c: 107; Smith, F. 1858b: 49; Mayr, 1862: 657 (redescription); Mayr, 1863: 400; Roger, 1863b: 4; Mayr, 1865: 33; Mayr, 1877: 20 (in list); Dalla Torre, 1893: 247; Santschi, 1913h: 42; Emery, 1920b: 233 (footnote); Santschi, 1922c: 101; Emery, 1925b: 81; Borgmeier, 1927c: 145; Wheeler, W.M. 1933a: 61; Wheeler, W.M. 1934f: 142; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 40; Kempf, 1972a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 117; Mackay & Delsinne, 2009: 496 (in key); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 256; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 765.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus jamaicensis, jason, pilosulus, plombyi, spengleri.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Branstetter M. G. and L. Sáenz. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano E. B. and J. C. Schuster. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp
  • Crawley W. C. 1916. Ants from British Guiana. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8(17): 366-378.
  • Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
  • Fernández F., E. E. Palacio, W. P. Mackay, and E. S. MacKay. 1996. Introducción al estudio de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Colombia. Pp. 349-412 in: Andrade M. G., G. Amat García, and F. Fernández. (eds.) 1996. Insectos de Colombia. Estudios escogidos. Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 541 pp
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • 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.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Maes, J.-M. and W.P. MacKay. 1993. Catalogo de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 23.
  • Vasquez-Bolanos M. 2011. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Mexico. Dugesiana 18(1): 95-133.
  • Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133
  • Wheeler, William Morton. 1911. Additions to the Ant-Fauna of Jamaica. Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. 30:21-29.
  • Wheeler, William Morton. 1933. Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition. California Academy of Sciences. 21(6):57-64.