Camponotus orthocephalus

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Camponotus orthocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. orthocephalus
Binomial name
Camponotus orthocephalus
Emery, 1894

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -0.631944444° to -12.85302778°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (type locality), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru.

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 casent0249393. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0249604. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by JTLC.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0619235. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by JTLC.
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Syntype of Camponotus orthocephalusWorker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0905498. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

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

  • orthocephalus. Camponotus orthocephalus Emery, 1894c: 169 (s.) BRAZIL (Mato Grosso).
    • Emery, 1920c: 37 (q.); Menozzi, 1927d: 339 (w.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1914a: 90;
    • combination in C. (Pseudocolobopsis): Emery, 1920b: 259.
    • Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 141; Emery, 1896d: 375 (in list); Emery, 1920c: 37; Emery, 1925b: 158; Borgmeier, 1927c: 155; Menozzi, 1927c: 268; Menozzi, 1927d: 339; Kempf, 1968b: 410; Kempf, 1972a: 64; Bolton, 1995b: 115; Bezděčková, et al. 2015: 113; Mackay & Mackay, 2019: 765.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Cuezzo, F. 1998. Formicidae. Chapter 42 in Morrone J.J., and S. Coscaron (dirs) Biodiversidad de artropodos argentinos: una perspectiva biotaxonomica Ediciones Sur, La Plata. Pages 452-462.
  • Emery C. 1920. Studi sui Camponotus. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 52: 3-48.
  • Escalante Gutiérrez J. A. 1993. Especies de hormigas conocidas del Perú (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Peruana de Entomología 34:1-13.
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • Franco W., N. Ladino, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Dejean, J. Orivel, M. Fichaux, S. Groc, M. Leponce, and R. M. Feitosa. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543.
  • Kempf W. W. 1968. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. IV. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 11: 369-415.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Kusnezov N. 1953. La fauna mirmecológica de Bolivia. Folia Universitaria. Cochabamba 6: 211-229.
  • Menozzi C. 1927. Formiche raccolte dal Sig. H. Schmidt nei dintorni di San José di Costa Rica. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem. 16: 266-277.
  • Vittar, F. 2008. Hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de la Mesopotamia Argentina. INSUGEO Miscelania 17(2):447-466