Camponotus tricolor

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Camponotus tricolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. tricolor
Binomial name
Camponotus tricolor
Weber, 1943
Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 4.112954° to 3.383333333°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Cameroun, Sudan (type locality).
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.

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

Nomenclature

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

  • tricolor. Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) tricolor Weber, 1943c: 387, pl. 16, fig. 33 (w.) SOUTH SUDAN.
    • Senior synonym of tameri Bolton, 1995b: 126 (unnecessary (redundant) replacement name): McArthur, 2012: 128.
  • tameri. Camponotus tameri Bolton, 1995b: 126.
    • Unnecessary (redundant) replacement name for Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) tricolor Weber, 1943c: 387.
    • [Note: earlier, but no longer, congeneric with Colobopsis tricolor Stitz, 1912: 511.]
    • Junior synonym of tricolor Weber: McArthur, 2012: 128.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
  • Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.