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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -16.817° to -18.4°.
Indo-Australian Region: Fiji (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
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.
- cristata. Camponotus cristatus Mayr, 1866a: 489, fig. 3 (w.) FIJI IS (Ovalau).
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Fiji Is: Ovalau I. (no collector’s name).
- Type-depository: NHMW.
- Mann, 1921: 479 (s.q.m.).
- Combination in C. (Myrmogonia): Forel, 1912i: 92;
- combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1876: 59 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 227; Emery, 1896d: 375 (in list); Mann, 1921: 479; Emery, 1925b: 144; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 41; Dlussky, 1994: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 94; McArthur, 2012: 22; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 57.
- Senior synonym of nagasau: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 57.
- Distribution: Fiji Is.
- nagasau. Camponotus (Myrmogonia) cristatus var. nagasau Mann, 1921: 482 (s.w.) FIJI IS (Taveuni).
- Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated, “a large series”).
- [Note: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 57, cite 1s, 22w syntypes (20w MCZC, 1s, 2w USNM).]
- Type-locality: Fiji Is: Taveuni I., Nagasau, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann).
- Type-depositories: MCZC, USNM.
- [Misspelled as nagasan by Emery, 1925b: 144.]
- Subspecies of cristata: Emery, 1925b: 144; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 113; McArthur, 2012: 24.
- Junior synonym of cristata: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 57.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)
- Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 92, combination in C. (Myrmogonia))
- Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499 (page 479, soldier, queen, male described)
- Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsber. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. Abt. I 53: 484-517 (page 489, fig. 3 worker described)
- Sarnat, E.M. & Economo, E.P. 2012. The ants of Fiji: 384 pp. UC Publications in Entomology, University of California Press.
- Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).
- Dlussky G.M. 1994. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. Zhivotnoe naselenie ostrovov Iugo-Zapadnoi Okeanii ekologo-geograficheskie issledovanii 48-93.
- Emery C. 1886. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna 5: 363-382
- Mann W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499.
- Sarnat Eli M. 2009. The Ants [Hymenoptera: Formicdiae] of Fiji: Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of an Island Arc Fauna. 80-252
- Ward, Darren F. and James K. Wetterer. 2006. Checklist of the Ants of Fiji. Fiji Arthropods III 85: 23-47.
- Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
- Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56
- Wilson E.O., and G.L. Hunt. 1967. Ant fauna of Futuna and Wallis islands, stepping stones to Polynesia. Pacific Insects 9(4): 563-584.
- Wilson, Edward O. and George L. Hunt. 1967. Ant Fauna of Futuna and Wallis Islands, Stepping Stones To Polynesia. Pacific Insects. 9(4):563-584.
- Wilson, Edward O. and Hunt, George L. Jr. 1967. Ant Fauna of Futuna and Wallis Islands, Stepping Stones to Polynesia. Pacific Insects. 9(4):563-584