Camponotus termitarius Emery, 2007
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6239920 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5CAA90EB-1067-0959-5120-316AAB1F2C0C |
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Camponotus termitarius Emery |
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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.
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Italy, Genova, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" |
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