Camponotus arcuatus

Camponotus arcuatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. arcuatus
Binomial name
	Camponotus arcuatus; Mayr, 1876 Specimen Labels
Subspecies
	Camponotus arcuatus aesopus Forel, 1907;

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Biology

Castes

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Worker. Specimen code casent0906931. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

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

arcuatus. Camponotus arcuatus Mayr, 1876: 63 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 217 (l.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1914a: 266;
- combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1920b: 257.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 222; Emery, 1896d: 374 (in list); Kirby, W.F. 1896: 203; Forel, 1902h: 494; Forel, 1914a: 266; Emery, 1925b: 110; Clark, 1930c: 18; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 110; Taylor, 1987a: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 86; McArthur, 2007a: 334; McArthur, 2010: 74; McArthur, 2014: 118.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus aesopus.

Type Material

Syntype, 6 workers, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna.

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

Description

Worker 5 - 8 mm Black, opaque, gaster, forehead in the major worker almost bronzed and glossy, mandibles, antennae and limbs castaneous or ferruginous; sparse pilosity scattered, gaster in the worker minor with plentiful adpressed white pubescence, antennae and feet without erect hairs; mandibles weakly curved, glossy, dispersed punctations; head and thorax very feebly and densely punctate, gaster feeble transverse coriaceous; clypeus scarcely keeled, the anterior moderately produced, the anterior margin arcuate, in the case of the major worker emarginate in the middle; thorax short, strongly convex above the propodeum angle, petiole with a rounded square node.

Rockhampton (Museum Godeffroy)

References

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 86, catalogue)
Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))
Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 266, combination in C. (Myrmoturba))
Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 63, soldier, worker described)
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61: 205-222 (page 217, larva described)