Camponotus rubripes

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Camponotus rubripes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. rubripes
Binomial name
Camponotus rubripes
(Latreille, 1802)

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Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -0.317° to -0.317°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Kenya, Sierra Leone (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.

  • rubripes. Formica rubripes Latreille, 1802c: 112 (w.) SIERRA LEONE.
    • Combination in Camponotus: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 222.
    • Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 104.
    • Subspecies of maculatus: Forel, 1891b: 23.
    • Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 32; Mayr, 1863: 401; Emery, 1891b: 17; Emery, 1896d: 370, 377 (in list); Emery, 1925b: 104; Bolton, 1995b: 121; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 205.
    • Material of the unavailable name barbarus Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893, referred here.
    • [Note: rubripes was the name applied by Latreille to the ant earlier misidentified as Formica barbara Linnaeus, by Drury, 1773: 72. Latreille, 1802c: 112, stresses that, “La fourmi de Barbarie de Linnée........est très différente”. See entry ‘Formica rubripes Drury, 1770’, sensu Forel, 1886f: 143.]

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Forel A. 1886. Études myrmécologiques en 1886.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 30: 131-215.
  • Garcia F.H., Wiesel E. and Fischer G. 2013.The Ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—Faunal Overview, First Species Checklist, Bibliography, Accounts for All Genera, and Discussion on Taxonomy and Zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History, 101(2): 127-222