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 (Urbana, Illinois).
Image copyright
Alex Wild.
// 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.
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 nests under bark of dead and down tree, 1 times nest under rock, 3 times under log, ...
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, 16 times direct collection, 2 times blacklight trap, 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