Camponotus micans

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Camponotus micans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. micans
Binomial name
Camponotus micans
(Nylander, 1856)

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Photo Gallery

  • Camponotus micans, quite far to the north of Faro, Algarve, Portugal, dense forest. Photo by Kajetan Mszk.

Identification

Distribution

This species seems to be restricted to south regions within the Iberian Peninsula.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 42.628611° to 27.033333°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality), Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, Spain.

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.

  • micans. Formica micans Nylander, 1856b: 55 (w.) ALGERIA.
    • Roger, 1859: 229 (q.); Emery, 1916b: 236 (q.).
    • Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1861: 36 (in key);
    • combination in C. (Myrmosericus): Menozzi, 1921: 32.
    • Subspecies of rufoglaucus: Forel, 1892j: 237; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 243, 250 (footnote); Emery, 1893c: 87 (footnote); Forel, 1894d: 3; Emery, 1895h: 49 (in key); Forel, 1895d: 227; Emery, 1896d: 372 (in list); Forel, 1902a: 158; Forel, 1904c: 12; Karavaiev, 1912a: 21; Emery, 1914d: 159; Emery, 1916b: 225; Stitz, 1917: 350; Santschi, 1919e: 247; Menozzi, 1921: 32; Menozzi, 1922b: 331; Emery, 1924a: 9; Emery, 1925b: 106; Donisthorpe, 1927a: 9; Kutter, 1928: 66; Menozzi, 1934: 165; Finzi, 1940: 164; Ceballos, 1956: 313; Cagniant, 1964: 91; Cagniant, 1966b: 281.
    • Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 30; Roger, 1859: 228; Mayr, 1861: 36 (in key); Roger, 1861b: 163; Mayr, 1862: 663; Mayr, 1863: 400; Roger, 1863b: 1; Emery, 1870: 193; Dours, 1873: 164; André, 1874: 177 (in key); Emery, 1878a: viii (in list); Emery, 1878b: 44; Mayr, 1879: 647; Emery & Forel, 1879: 447; Forel, 1879a: 77; Saunders, E. 1890: 202; André, 1882a: 147 (in key); Emery, 1884a: 376; Forel, 1885b: 176; Forel, 1886d: 239; Emery, 1889b: 513; Forel, 1890a: lxvii; Emery, 1891b: 21; Emery, 1892a: 120; Dalla Torre, 1893: 242; Medina, 1893: 104; Forel, 1909c: 106; Santschi, 1925g: 359; Santschi, 1931a: 11; Santschi, 1932c: 71; Santschi, 1932g: 4; Santschi, 1936c: 208; Santschi, 1938a: 43; Santschi, 1939c: 5; Menozzi, 1940: 271; Baroni Urbani, 1964b: 62; Baroni Urbani, 1964c: 161; Arnol’di, 1967: 1828; Cagniant, 1968a: 146; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 82; Cagniant, 1970c: 34; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 189; Collingwood, 1978: 91 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 111; Mei, 1995: 767; Poldi, et al. 1995: 7; Cagniant, 1996b: 94; Espadaler, 1997b: 27; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 25 (in key); Cagniant, 2006a: 194; Borowiec, L. 2014: 37 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 144.
    • [Note: Collingwood, 1978: 72, lists micans as senior synonym of rufoglaucus. Error because, (i) rufoglaucus has priority, (ii) the two have never otherwise been considered synonymous, either before or after 1978.]
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus asniensis.

Description

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