Camponotus aeneopilosus

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Camponotus aeneopilosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. aeneopilosus
Binomial name
Camponotus aeneopilosus
Mayr, 1862

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.81666756° to -36.18805°.

     
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

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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Worker. Specimen code casent0280172. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0906929. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.
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Syntype of Camponotus aeneopilosus flavidopubescensWorker. Specimen code casent0910363. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

  • aeneopilosus. Camponotus aeneopilosus Mayr, 1862: 665 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
    • Mayr, 1865: 34 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1953e: 195 (l.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmosericus): Forel, 1914a: 268;
    • combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 706; Santschi, 1928e: 482.
    • Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 4; Mayr, 1863: 397; Mayr, 1865: 34 (redescription); Mayr, 1876: 60 (in key); Forel, 1886f: 173; Dalla Torre, 1893: 220; Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Forel, 1902h: 503; Forel, 1907a: 34; Forel, 1910b: 74; Stitz, 1911a: 372; Emery, 1914b: 181; Forel, 1915b: 106; Emery, 1925b: 110; Clark, 1934c: 71; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 110; Taylor, 1987a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 84; McArthur, 2007a: 324; McArthur, 2010: 90; McArthur, 2014: 142.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus flavidopubescens.

Type Material

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

Description

Worker 10mm long. Very similar to C. aethiops but with a strong brass-yellow pubescence on the upper side of the gaster; the clypeus is S shaped in the middle of its posterior margin; the mandibles black.

Brought back from Sidney (= Sydney) with the Novarae expedition.

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Emery C. 1914. Formiche d'Australia e di Samoa raccolte dal Prof. Silvestri nel 1913. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8: 179-186.
  • Heatwole H., S. Tremont, and E. Broese. 2013. Point-diversity, a critical tool for assessing dynamics of guilds of scavenging ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): an example from a eucalypt woodland. Systematics and Biodiversity 11(2): 149–180.
  • McArthur A. 2010. A guide to Camponotus ants of South Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, IV + 121 pp.
  • Osunkoya O. O., C. Polo, and A. N. Andersen. 2011. Invasion impacts on biodiversity: response of ant communities to infestation by cat's claw creeper vine, Macfadyena unguis-cati (Bignoniaceae) in subtropical Australia. Biol. Invasions 13: 2289-2302.
  • Stitz H. 1911. Australische Ameisen. (Neu-Guinea und Salomons-Inseln, Festland, Neu-Seeland). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1911: 351-381.