Camponotus termitarius Emery, 2007

Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55 : 48-49

publication ID

21367

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B08DA0DB-EEC0-4ED3-9FBE-59328B034102

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6239920

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5CAA90EB-1067-0959-5120-316AAB1F2C0C

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Thomas

scientific name

Camponotus termitarius Emery
status

NEW STATUS

Camponotus termitarius Emery   HNS 1902. NEW STATUS.

Camponotus punctulatus subsp. termitarius Emery   HNS 1902: 297. [w syntypes examined, MCSN; Rio Grande do Sul; Brazil (Schupp)] .

Camponotus (Myrmoturba) punctulatus r. termitarius Emery   HNS . Forel 1913: 249.

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) punctulatus subsp. termitaria Emery   HNS . Emery 1925: 78.

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) punctulatus termitarius Emery   HNS . Kempf 1972: 71.

The aptly-named Camponotus termitarius   HNS is most commonly collected from old termite mounds in low-lying pastures and pastizales. This ant should be treated as a full species. Camponotus termitarius   HNS is locally sympatric with C. punctulatus   HNS (syntype w examined, NHMW), shows consistent differences in nesting site ( C. punctulatus   HNS is a generalist groundnesting ant), and is morphological distinct in a number of characters. First, C. termitarius   HNS is more pilose, being intermediate in this regard between the relatively hirsute C. hispidus   HNS and the relatively bare C. punctulatus   HNS , lacking extensive standing hairs on the side of the head but bearing>8 between the eye and the mandibular insertions. Second, the propodeum of C. termitarius   HNS is lower, more elongate, and with a shorter declivitous face than that of C. punctulatus   HNS . Third, the microsculpture of the gastric tergites is more extensive, giving the gaster a duller appearance than in either C. hispidus   HNS or C. termitarius   HNS . Finally, the pubescence is more extensive in C. termitarius   HNS than in either C. hispidus   HNS or C. termitarius   HNS , with the fine appressed setae on the first gastric tergite separated by distances much shorter than the length of the setae and overlapping in places.

MCSN

Italy, Genova, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria"

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Camponotus

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