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Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Formicinae Genus: Camponotus

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Formica pensylvanica De Geer, 1773 PDF: 603, pl. 31, figs. 9, 10 (s.w.q.m.) U.S.A. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Spelling justifiably emended to Camponotus pennsylvanica: Buckley, 1866 PDF: 155.].

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953e PDF: 187 (l.).

Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 666; in Camponotus (Camponotus): Forel, 1914a PDF: 266.

Subspecies of Camponotus herculeanus: Forel, 1879a PDF: 57; Mayr, 1886d PDF: 420; Wheeler, 1913d PDF: 117; Wheeler, 1917k PDF: 465; Wheeler, 1932a PDF: 13; Buren, 1944a PDF: 293.

Status as species: Ruzsky, 1896 PDF: 67; Forel, 1901m PDF: 70; Forel, 1907h PDF: 10; Wheeler, 1910g PDF: 335; Emery, 1920b PDF: 255; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 367; Smith, 1979: 1427.

Senior synonym of Camponotus semipunctata: Mayr, 1886d PDF: 420; of Camponotus herculeanopennsylvanicus (and its junior synonym Camponotus mahican): Creighton, 1950a PDF: 367.

Distribution:

NEARCTIC: USA (MA) Southern Canada S. to Gulf Coast States (excluding pennisular Florida) W. to central TX and N. to Dakota

Biology:

Woodland, forest (including floodplain forest canopy), parks, campuses. Nests in dead wood of living trees. Forages on trees and on ground day and night, more abundantly at night.

Taxon Page Images:

The eastern black carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus (Urbana, Illinois).
Image copyright Alex Wild.

Taxon Page Author History

On 2012-04-20 16:18:02 Alex Wild modified Images
On 2012-04-20 16:15:24 Alex Wild modified Images

Specimen Data Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 3 times found in oak area, 2 times found in oak grove, 1 times found in mixed beech buttress log mold & tree hole, 2 times found in oak woods, 2 times found in Suburban with wide-spaced, 1 times found in cut stumphole, 1 times found in Moist hardwood forest, 2 times found in oak pine forest edge, 1 times found in postoak/grass parkland, 1 times found in dense hardwood/evergreen forest, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods or in the following microhabitats: 1 times on silver poplar tree (Populus alba), 7 times bait trap, 14 times Search, 2 times under bark of log, 1 times bait, 1 times under bark of tree

Elevations: collected from 5 - 1500 meters, 208 meters average