Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Formica pensylvanica De Geer, 1773 PDF: 603, pl. 31, figs. 9, 10 (s.w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Pennsylvania). Nearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Pennsylvania (
Acrelius?). Primary type depository: MNHN.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Subspecies of
Camponotus herculeanus:
Forel, 1879a PDF: 57;
Provancher, 1881b PDF: 355;
Mayr, 1886d PDF: 420;
Cresson, 1887 PDF: 256;
Emery, 1893k PDF: 675;
Emery, 1895m: 477;
Emery, 1896j PDF: 372 (in list);
Wheeler, 1900c PDF: 47;
Viereck, 1903 PDF: 72;
Wheeler, 1905j PDF: 402;
Wheeler, 1906g PDF: 22;
Wheeler, 1910g PDF: 335 (redescription);
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 571;
Santschi, 1911d PDF: 7;
Wheeler, 1913d PDF: 117;
Forel, 1914a PDF: 266;
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 348;
Wheeler, 1916r: 600;
Wheeler, 1917k PDF: 465;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 73;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 401;
Karavaiev, 1929d PDF: 211;
Wheeler, 1932a PDF: 13;
Dennis, 1938 PDF: 301;
Wing, 1939 PDF: 163;
Wesson & Wesson, 1940 PDF: 103;
Buren, 1944a PDF: 293;
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944 PDF: 251;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 840.
Status as species:
Retzius, 1783 PDF: 75;
Olivier, 1792: 501;
Latreille, 1802a PDF: 99;
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835 PDF: 213;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 53;
Mayr, 1862 PDF: 666 (redescription);
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 400;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 6;
Buckley, 1866 PDF: 155;
Provancher, 1881b PDF: 355;
André, 1882b PDF: 141 (in key);
Provancher, 1883 PDF: 598;
Provancher, 1887: 229 (in key);
Nasonov, 1889: 13;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 246;
Ruzsky, 1896 PDF: 67;
Emery, 1898a PDF: 225;
Forel, 1901m PDF: 70;
Ruzsky, 1903c PDF: 205;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 227;
Forel, 1907h PDF: 10;
Wheeler, 1910g PDF: 335;
Emery, 1920b PDF: 255;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 367;
Smith, 1958c PDF: 143;
Carter, 1962a PDF: 7 (in list);
Smith, 1967a PDF: 366;
Francoeur, 1975 PDF: 264;
Francoeur, 1977b PDF: 207;
Smith, 1979: 1427;
DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 146;
Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 100;
Wheeler et al., 1994 PDF: 305;
Bolton, 1995b: 116;
Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 301;
Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 44;
Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004 PDF: 215;
Coovert, 2005 PDF: 167;
Hansen & Klotz, 2005: 86;
MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 66;
MacGown et al., 2007 PDF: 11;
Ellison et al., 2012: 124;
Deyrup, 2017: 196;
Mackay, 2019: 292 (redescription).
Taxon Page Images:
The eastern black carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus (Heath, Ohio).
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// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Bermuda,
Canada,
United States Europe: Greece Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical,
Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
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.
Identification:
Camponotus pennsylvanicus is a common black carpenter ant species. Body is black; gaster has golden hairs lining segments sometimes unapparent
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 15 times found in deciduous forest, 0 times found in peripheral to cultivated cotton, 0 times found in mixed mesic forest ravine, 29 times found in mixed hardwood forest, 5 times found in mixed forest, 0 times found in in swamp, 6 times found in oak area, 10 times found in bottomland hardwood forest, 13 times found in Quercus alba stump, 12 times found in oak-hickory forest, Black Belt Prairie, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times on silver poplar tree (Populus alba), 2 times under bark of log, 7 times log stage 4, 7 times log stage 3, 5 times litter, 3 times strays, 5 times log stage 2, 2 times hardwood trees, 1 times nest under rock, 3 times under log, 1 times nests under bark of dead and down tree, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 31 times pitfall trap, 3 times Lindgren funnel baited with Typosan and alpha pinene, 27 times bait trap, 12 times Lindgren funnel, 0 times malaise trap, 2 times Lindgren funnel baited with Typosan, 20 times Search, 2 times blacklight trap, 16 times direct collection, 7 times hand collecting, 7 times Lindgren funnel baited with alpha pinene, ...
Elevations: collected from 5 - 3200 meters, 494 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1890-06-01 00:00:00.0 and 2023-04-09 00:00:00.0
Type specimens:
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia