Camponotus nearcticus (lat.) - A species of medium-sized ants from the genus Camponotus ( Formicidae ).
| Camponotus nearcticus |
Camp antotus nearcticus working ant |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Subtype : | Tracheo-breathing |
| Infraclass : | Winged insects |
| Treasure : | Fully Transformed Insects |
| View: | Camponotus nearcticus |
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| International scientific name |
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Camponotus nearcticus Emery, 1893 |
| Synonyms |
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- Camponotus fallax pardus Wheeler, WM, 1917
- Camponotus fallax tanquaryi Wheeler, WM, 1917
- Camponotus marginatus minutus emery, 1893
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North America ( Canada , USA [1] [2] .
Length about 1 cm, but sizes vary greatly: workers from 3.5 mm to 7.5 mm, females from 4 to 10 mm. The coloring of the working ants is brownish-black [3] [4] . Antennae 12-segmented in females and workers and 13-segmented in males. The stalk between the chest and the abdomen in all castes consists of one segment of the petiol [1] .
They live in prairies and forests [5] . Families are small (up to several hundred ants), anthills in rotten wood [2] . Associated with myrmecophilic caterpillars of the spring Lycaena butterfly [6] .
It was first described in 1893 by the Italian entomologist Carl Emery under the original name Camponotus marginatus var. nearcticus Emery, 1893 [4] . Since 1925 it has been included in the subgenus Myrmentoma (Emery, 1925b: 117.) [7] . It was also previously considered as a subspecies of Camponotus fallax [8] or Camponotus caryae [9] species. Since 1950, in an independent species status [1] .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Creighton, WS 1950. The ants of North America. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 104: 1-585 (page 388, upgraded to species status)
- ↑ 1 2 Smith, Marion R. House-infesting ants of the eastern United States: their recognition, biology, and economic importance (English) // Technical bulletin no. 1326.: journal. - Washington, DC : United States Department of Agriculture, 1965. - P. 72 .
- ↑ MacGown, Joe Camponotus (Myrmentoma) nearcticus Emery (neopr.) . Mississippi Entomological Museum (Mississippi State University) (March 6, 2003). Date of treatment December 31, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Emery, Carlo. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna (German) // Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere: magazin. - 1893. - Bd. 7 . - S. 633-682 . (page 675, description of workers and females)
- ↑ Mackay, William. The ants of New Mexico: (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) / William Mackay, Emma Mackay. - Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002 .-- ISBN 978-0773468849 .
- ↑ Harvey, Dj; Webb, Ta, 1980: Ants associated with Harkenclenus titus, Glaucopsyche lygdamas, and Celastrina argiolus (Lycaenidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 34: 371-372
- ↑ Emery, C. 1925. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 117, as part of the subgenus Myrmentoma )
- ↑ Wheeler, WM 1910. The North American forms of Camponotus fallax Nylander. JNY Entomol. Soc. 18: 216-232 (page 223, description of the soldier and male)
- ↑ Wheeler, WM 1917. The North American ants described by Asa Fitch. Psyche (Camb.) 24: 26-29 (page 27, younger synonym for caryae )