Camponotus coruscus

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Camponotus coruscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. coruscus
Binomial name
Camponotus coruscus
(Smith, F., 1862)

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Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 19.90550556° to 2.774055556°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama (type locality), Venezuela.

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 inbiocri002280762. Photographer April Nobile, 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.

  • coruscus. Formica corusca Smith, F. 1862b: 30 (w.) PANAMA.
    • [Misspelled as corruscus by Mayr, 1870a: 373.]
    • Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1870a: 373;
    • combination in C. (Myrmothrix): Forel, 1914a: 268;
    • combination in C. (Myrmaphaenus): Emery, 1920b: 256;
    • combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 80.
    • Status as species: Mayr, 1863: 413; Mayr, 1870a: 373 (in key); Forel, 1879a: 90; Forel, 1885a: 345; Dalla Torre, 1893: 226; Emery, 1896d: 375 (in list); Forel, 1899c: 148; Forel, 1902b: 171; Forel, 1907e: 10; Emery, 1925b: 80; Kempf, 1972a: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 94; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 255; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 757.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus astilbus, fulgens.

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
  • Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
  • Del Toro, I., M. Vázquez, W.P. Mackay, P. Rojas and R. Zapata-Mata. Hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Tabasco: explorando la diversidad de la mirmecofauna en las selvas tropicales de baja altitud. Dugesiana 16(1):1-14.
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133
  • Wheeler W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262.