Species: Camponotus (Myrmentoma) nearcticus

Current Valid Name:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Camponotus marginatus var. nearcticus Emery, 1893k PDF: 675 (s.w.q.) U.S.A. (Pennsylvania). Nearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality U.S.A.: Pennsylvania (no collector’s name) (by restriction of Creighton, 1950a PDF: 388). Primary type depository: MSNG. Type notes: Other original syntype localities: U.S.A.: New York, District of Columbia, Florida, and California (no further data, no collectors’ names). AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Wheeler, 1910i PDF: 223 (s.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953e PDF: 193 (l.)

Combination in Camponotus (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1925d PDF: 117.

As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1896j PDF: 373 (in list); Wheeler, 1910i PDF: 222.

Junior synonym of Camponotus caryae: Wheeler, 1917c PDF: 28; Wheeler, 1917k PDF: 466 (in text); Emery, 1925d PDF: 117.

Subspecies of Camponotus marginatus: Wheeler, 1905j PDF: 402; Wheeler, 1906g PDF: 24.

Subspecies of Camponotus fallax: Wheeler, 1908k PDF: 406; Wheeler, 1910g PDF: 342; Wheeler, 1910i PDF: 222 (in key); Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 572; Wheeler, 1913d PDF: 117; Wheeler, 1916r: 600; Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 558; Cole, 1936a PDF: 39.

Subspecies of Camponotus caryae: Buren, 1944a PDF: 294.

Status as species: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 388; Smith, 1951c PDF: 845; Smith, 1958c PDF: 145; Carter, 1962a PDF: 7 (in list); Smith, 1967a PDF: 367; Hunt & Snelling, 1975 PDF: 22; Francoeur, 1977b PDF: 207; Yensen et al., 1977 PDF: 184; Smith, 1979: 1432; Allred, 1982: 456; Snelling, 1988 PDF: 70; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 146; Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 100; Wheeler et al., 1994 PDF: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 113; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 296; Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 44; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 170; Hansen & Klotz, 2005: 91; MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 66; MacGown et al., 2007 PDF: 16; Ellison et al., 2012: 122; Deyrup, 2017: 195.

Senior synonym of Camponotus minutus: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 388; Smith, 1951c PDF: 845; Smith, 1979: 1432; Snelling, 1988 PDF: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 113.

Senior synonym of Camponotus caryae pardus: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 388; Smith, 1951c PDF: 845; Smith, 1979: 1432; Bolton, 1995b: 113; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 170.

Senior synonym of Camponotus caryae tanquaryi: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 388; Smith, 1951c PDF: 845; Smith, 1979: 1432; Snelling, 1988 PDF: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 113.

// Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Canada, United States
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Nearctic

Distribution Notes:

NEARCTIC: USA (MA, TX, CO, ID, CA)

Biology:

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

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 00 am times found in crawling on ground and on Pinus taeda at 7, 0 times found in mixed forest, 10 times found in mixed hardwood forest, 0 times found in crawling on Quercus falcata, 0 times found in dead trees in storm damaged area, 0 times found in on log of Pinus taeda, 3 times found in urban area, 5 times found in Black oak dunes, 1 times found in suburban sidewalk, 2 times found in riparian mixed hardwood forest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times under bark of tree, 8 times log stage 2, 1 times on sidewalk, 1 times nest in dead wood, 1 times nest in dead pine branch, 1 times in building, 1 times nest in dead, standing wood, 3 times log stage 4, 2 times on tree trunk, 1 times nest bnth porch, 2 times log stage 3, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 13 times search, 0 times Lindgren Funnel, 0 times beating, 6 times hand collecting, 0 times Lindgren Funnel baited with Typosan, 5 times direct collection, 0 times general collecting, 0 times Lindgren Funnel baited with Typosan and alpha pinene, 0 times light trap, 0 times pitfall trap, 0 times malaise trap, ...

Elevations: collected from 5 - 2134 meters, 980 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1882-12-25 00:00:00.0 and 2023-07-27 00:00:00.0

Type specimens: syntype of Camponotus marginatus minutus: casent0905403; syntype of Camponotus nearcticus: casent0905401, casent0905402, casent0910417, casent0910418

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Species: Camponotus (Myrmentoma) nearcticus Emery, 1893

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