Camponotus suffusus bendigensis

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Camponotus suffusus bendigensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. suffusus
Subspecies: C. suffusus bendigensis
Trinomial name
Camponotus suffusus bendigensis
Forel, 1902

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Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -33.7° to -37.23333333°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (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.

  • bendigensis. Camponotus suffusus var. bendigensis Forel, 1902h: 493 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
    • Crawley, 1921: 96 (m.).
    • Combination in C. (Myrmosaulus): Emery, 1925b: 114.
    • Subspecies of suffusus: Emery, 1914b: 181; Crawley, 1921: 96; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 120; Taylor, 1987a: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 88.

Type Material

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker minor. Smaller; Length 7.8-9 mm. Body entirely black, limbs and funicles red. A strong indentation between mesonotum and metanotum(= propodeum), basal face rising in a slope after the indentation, instead of departing horizontally from the curve of the mesonotum as in the type. Basal face is shorter than the type, scarcely longer than the declivity; this latter is higher and more abrupt which renders the metanotum (= propodeum) sub cubic. Otherwise like the type suffusus but the head is narrower behind and the eyes are more convex.

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