Camponotus crassus (lat.) - a species of ants of the genus Camponotus from the subfamily of formicin ( Formicidae ).
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Content
- 1 Distribution
- 2 Description
- 3 Systematics
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Distribution
South America: Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay , Trinidad and Tobago [1] .
Description
Ants are medium in size (about 1 cm). The head , chest and abdomen of workers are mostly brownish-black; legs and antennae lighter. The body is covered with numerous whitish hairs. The chest in profile is uniformly convex. Propodeum without epinotal spines or teeth. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of one segment ( petiolus ) bearing a vertical scale [1] . Tocoyena formosa extra -flowering nectaries are visited in the Cerrado ecosystems in southeastern Brazil [2] . Wood anthills, including in various bromeliads on large Erythrina trees in Brazil. C. crassus was found in 7 different bromeliads, but was associated with branches and cavities of the cortex, and not with suspended epiphytic soil or plant litter [3] . Fagundes et al. (2010) reported that nesting was found in bamboo [4] .
The diploid chromosome set is 2n = 20 (karyotype = 20M), the haploid set is n = 10 (Brazil) [5] [6] .
View from above
Head
View from above
Head
Systematics
The species was first described in 1862 by Austrian worldmecologist Gustav Mayr , and in 1914 Auguste Trout included it in the subgenus Myrmobrachys [1] [7] [8] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Denise Lange, Eduardo Soares Calixto, Bianca Bonami Rosa, Tiago Amaral Sales, Kleber Del-Claro. Natural history and ecology of foraging of the Camponotus crassus Mayr, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (Eng.) // Journal of Natural History : Journal. - Taylor and Francis , 2019 .-- Vol. 53 , no. 1737-1749 . - P. 806-815 . - ISSN 0022-2933 .
- ↑ Sanz-Veiga PA, LR Jorge, S. Benitez-Vieyra, and FW Amorim. 2017. Pericarpial nectary-visiting ants do not provide fruit protection against pre-dispersal seed predators regardless of ant species composition and resource availability. PLOS ONE. 12. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0188445
- ↑ DaRocha WD, SP Ribeiro, FS Neves, GW Fernandes, M. Leponce, and JHC Delabie. 2015. How does bromeliad distribution structure the arboreal ant assemblage (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on a single tree in a Brazilian Atlantic forest agroecosystem? Myrmecological News. 21: 83–92.
- ↑ Fagundes R., Terra G., Ribeiro SR, Majer JD 2010. O bambu Merostachys fischeriana (Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) como habitat para formigas de floresta tropical montana. Neotropical Entomology 39 (6): 906-911.
- ↑ Aguiar HJAC, Barros LAC, Soares FAF, Carvalho CR, Pompolo SG. (2016). Estimation of nuclear genome size of three species of Camponotus (Mayr, 1861) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) and their cytogenetic relationship . Socobiology. 2016; 63 (2): 777-782.
- ↑ Mariano CSF, Pompolo SG, Delabie JHC Campos LAO (2001). Estudos cariotípicos de algumas espécies neotropicais de Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 45 (4): 267-274.
- ↑ Mayr G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verh. KK. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 12: 649-776 (page 670, description of the working caste)
- ↑ Forel A. 1914. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257–276 (page 270, combination of C. (Myrmobrachys) )
Literature
- Denise Lange, Eduardo Soares Calixto, Bianca Bonami Rosa, Tiago Amaral Sales, Kleber Del-Claro. Natural history and ecology of foraging of the Camponotus crassus Mayr, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (Eng.) // Journal of Natural History : Journal. - Taylor and Francis , 2019 .-- Vol. 53 , no. 1737-1749 . - P. 806-815 . - ISSN 0022-2933 .
Links
- Camponotus Carpenter Ants on eol.org