Species: Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) festinatus

Current Valid Name:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2022)

Formica festinata Buckley, 1866 PDF: 164 (w.q.) U.S.A. Nearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Wheeler, 1910g PDF: 312 (s.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b PDF: 651 (l.)

Combination in Camponotus: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 231.

Combination in Camponotus (Myrmoturba): Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 561.

Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d PDF: 80.

Subspecies of Camponotus fumidus: Wheeler, 1902g PDF: 22; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 376

Status as species: Cresson, 1887 PDF: 256; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 231; Emery, 1896j PDF: 378 (in list); Snelling, 1968b PDF: 350; Hunt & Snelling, 1975 PDF: 22; Smith, 1979: 1428; Snelling & George, 1979: 183; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 62 (in key); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 335; Bolton, 1995b: 99; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 288; Ward, 2005 PDF: 63; Snelling, 2006 PDF: 85 (redescription).

Senior synonym of Camponotus fumidus pubicornis: Wheeler, 1910g PDF: 312

Senior synonym of Camponotus fumidus spurcus: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 376

[Note: senior synonym of †Paleosminthurus juliae Camponotus juliae Pierce & Gibron, 1962: Snelling, R.R. (pers. comm. to B. Bolton, 2004, unpublished, unconfirmed).]

// Distribution

Distribution:

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

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Treatment Citation: Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68

Camponotus festinatus (BuckleyHNS 1866)

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 23 times found in oak-juniper-pinyon woodland, 16 times found in around desert marsh, 15 times found in hillside in highland grassland, 0 times found in highland grassland, oak woodland, 2 times found in desert wash, 5 times found in Desert canyon forest, 1 times found in open area in oak woodland, 4 times found in Pine-oak forest, 1 times found in oak/juniper woodland, 3 times found in mixed-habitat urban field station, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 12 times under rock, 2 times nest under rock, 3 times under stone, 1 times nest under rock, in soil, 1 times nesting beneath a flat rock, 3 times nest under stone, 1 times nest beneath rock, 1 times in dead Coryphanta sulcata, 1 times under boulder, 1 times on sinita, 1 times on ground, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 39 times malaise trap, 3 times hand collecting, 0 times mercury vapor lamp, 4 times direct collection, 2 times search, 1 times UV light.

Elevations: collected from 145 - 2438 meters, 883 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1937-04-06 00:00:00.0 and 2019-03-14 00:00:00.0

Type specimens: syntype of Camponotus fragilis: castype00594

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Species: Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) festinatus (Buckley, 1866)

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