Camponotus megalonyx

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Camponotus megalonyx
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Subgenus: Myrmopalpella
Species: C. megalonyx
Binomial name
Camponotus megalonyx
Wheeler, W.M., 1919

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Synonyms

This species nests in the thickened part of rattan leaves (Korthalsia spp.) (Yamane et al., 2021). It is the sole member of the subgenus Myrmopalpella.

Identification

Yamane et al. (2021): Worker caste highly polymorphic (total body length: 4–8.5 mm). Worker with a more or less saddle-shaped propodeum and deep metanotal groove; antennal scape and tibiae of all legs with erect hairs; in larger workers, particularly entire body densely minutely punctate or coriaceous.

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.
Oriental Region: India.

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

Queen

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Nomenclature

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

  • megalonyx. Camponotus (Myrmosphincta) megalonyx Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 114 (s.w.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
    • Stärcke, 1934: 24 (q.m.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmopalpella): Stärcke, 1934: 30 (in text).
    • Status as species: Stärcke, 1934: 20 (redescription); Wheeler, W.M. 1936e: 217; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 110; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 85.
    • Senior synonym of chalaconotus: Stärcke, 1934: 29; Wheeler, W.M. 1936e: 217 (in text); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 111; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 37.
  • chalaconotus. Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) chalaconotus Menozzi, 1929c: 430, figs. 1, 2 (s.) (no state data, “without any precise indication of locality, but most probably from India (or Burma), since it came from the collection of the late Col. C.T. Bingham”).
    • [Misspelled as chalconotus by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237.]
    • Junior synonym of megalonyx: Stärcke, 1934: 29 (provisional); Wheeler, W.M. 1936e: 217 (in text) ; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 91.
  • dracocephalus. Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) dracocephalus Stitz, 1938: 112, fig. 10 (q.) BORNEO (Indonesia: Kalimantan).
    • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 245; Bolton, 1995b: 97; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 37.
    • Junior synonym of megalonyx: Yamane et al., 2021: 177.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
  • Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
  • Stitz H. 1938. Neue Ameisen aus dem indo-malayischen Gebiet. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1938: 99-122.