Camponotus fryi

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Camponotus fryi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. fryi
Binomial name
Camponotus fryi
Mann, 1916

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Brazil (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

Nomenclature

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

  • fryi. Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus subsp. fryi Mann, 1916: 474, pl. 6, fig. 52 (s.) BRAZIL (Rondônia).
    • Type-material: holotype major worker.
    • Type-locality: Brazil: Mato Grosso (now Rondônia), Madeira-Mamoré Rail Road Company Camp 39, 1911 (Stanford Expd.) (W.M. Mann).
    • Type-depository: MCZC.
    • Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 84.
    • Subspecies of picipes: Emery, 1920b: 233 (footnote).
    • Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 84; Borgmeier, 1927c: 144; Kempf, 1972a: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 100.
    • Distribution: Brazil.

Description

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 100, catalogue)
  • Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 233, subspecies of picipes (footnote))
  • Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 84, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))
  • Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 84, raised to species)
  • Mann, W. M. 1916. The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director. The ants of Brazil. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 399-490 (page 474, pl. 6 fig. 52 soldier described)