Camponotus piliventris

AntWiki: The Ants --- Online
Camponotus piliventris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. piliventris
Binomial name
Camponotus piliventris
(Smith, F., 1858)

Camponotus piliventris casent0903547 p 1 high.jpg

Camponotus piliventris casent0903547 d 1 high.jpg

Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -31.55° to -36.61666667°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

AntMapLegend.png

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

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.
pChart

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.
pChart

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • piliventris. Formica piliventris Smith, F. 1858b: 39 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia).
    • Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 4.
    • Junior synonym of suffusus: Mayr, 1886c: 355; Emery, 1896d: 373; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 120; Taylor, 1987a: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 117.
    • Status as species: Mayr, 1863: 419; Roger, 1863b: 4, 44; McArthur, 2007a: 320; McArthur, 2010: 88.


Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker. Length 5« lines(= 11 mm). Very variable in color: head obscurely black; thorax, legs and abdomen black, or with the head and the thorax obscurely red; sometimes black with only the legs red. Head large, much wider than the thorax, the mandibles with coarse longitudinal irregular striae; the clypeus subcarinate; the head and thorax very delicately shagreened; the thorax rounded in front, much compressed behind, with the metathorax obliquely truncated. Abdomen obscurely cupreous and clothed with a short pale golden pubescence; the scale narrow, incrassate, narrowed to the upper margin, which is very faintly notched.

Hab. South Australia.

References