Camponotus coruscus (Smith F., 1862)

Aguilar-Mendez, Mario J., Rosas-Mejia, Madai, Vasquez-Bolanos, Miguel, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Gloria Angelica & Janda, Milan, 2021, New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60630-60630 : 60630

Camponotus coruscus (Smith F., 1862)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Camponotus ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Smith F., 1862); Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Nuevo León; locality: Cumbres ; verbatimElevation: 422.4 m; decimalLatitude: 25.44029; decimalLongitude: -100.09637; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2016; month: 9; day: 2; habitat: human settlement

Distribution

Camponotus coruscus (Smith F., 1862) were found foraging in a human settlement at the ridge of the Cumbres mountain range near Monterrey, Nuevo León. The amt at the locality is 21.3 ºC and 74.4 mm/cm2 of amp. Camponotus coruscus have been found in forests and near human settlements in Costa Rica ( Longino 2002). This species has been previously recorded from south and central America, from Colombia to southern Mexico. Our findings expand their known distribution range by 139 km to the north.