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Species: Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) sylvaticus   (Olivier, 1792) 

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 2 valid subspecies

Formica sylvatica Olivier, 1792: 491 (q.) FRANCE. Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) queen. Primary type locality: France: “forests of southern provinces” (no further data) (Olivier). Primary type depository: MNHN. Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Misspelled as silvaticus by Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 252; Emery, 1896j PDF: 371; Ruzsky, 1905b: 205, and others.]
Forel, 1874 PDF: 38 (s.w.m.); Emery, 1916a PDF: 229 (s.w., in key)
Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1862c PDF: 291.
Subspecies of Camponotus rubripes: Forel, 1886h PDF: 143; Emery, 1887a PDF: 212 (footnote); Forel, 1890b PDF: lxvi; Saunders, 1890 PDF: 202.
Status as species: Latreille, 1798 PDF: 34; Latreille, 1802a PDF: 105; Jurine, 1807 PDF: 272; Schilling, 1839 PDF: 53; Mayr, 1855 PDF: 319; Smith, 1858a PDF: 12; Roger, 1862c PDF: 291; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 401; Roger, 1863b PDF: 1; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 27; Emery, 1870 PDF: 193; Dours, 1873 PDF: 164; Smith, 1873: viii; Forel, 1874 PDF: 38 (in key); André, 1874b: 177 (in key); Mayr, 1877a: 1; Emery, 1877: 364; Emery, 1878a PDF: viii (in list); Emery, 1878: 44; Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 448; Forel, 1879a PDF: 61; Mayr, 1880 PDF: 21; Emery, 1880 PDF: 389; Emery, 1881b PDF: 525; André, 1881c PDF: 54; André, 1882b PDF: 144 (in key); Emery, 1884: 375; Forel, 1885b PDF: 176; Forel, 1886e PDF: clxvii; Mayr, 1886d PDF: 422; Cresson, 1887 PDF: 255; Emery, 1887a PDF: 212; Nasonov, 1889: 11; Rothney, 1889 PDF: 351; Cameron, 1891: 89; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 252; Medina, 1893 PDF: 104; Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 75; Emery, 1920d 10.5281/zenodo.25547 PDF: 6, 11 (in key); Menozzi, 1922c PDF: 330; Emery, 1925d PDF: 100; Donisthorpe, 1926b PDF: 17; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 403; Santschi, 1931a: 11; Santschi, 1936c PDF: 207; Menozzi, 1939a PDF: 315; Finzi, 1940 PDF: 163; Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 110 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1950e PDF: 1067; Schmitz, 1950 PDF: 13; Ceballos, 1956: 313; Bernard, 1959a PDF: 350; Cagniant, 1964 PDF: 91; Bernard, 1967a PDF: 337 (redescription); Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 83; Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 186; Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 91 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 284 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 126; Poldi et al., 1995: 7; Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 27; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 25 (in key); Karmaly & Narendran, 2006 PDF: 121; Petrov, 2006 PDF: 110 (in key); Werner & Wiezik, 2007 PDF: 156; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 132; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 480; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 46; Legakis, 2011 PDF: 33; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 482; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 8; Karaman & Aktaç, 2013 PDF: 53 (in key); Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 43; Lebas et al., 2016: 158; Arcos et al., 2022 10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7623 PDF: 10.
Senior synonym of Camponotus catalanus: Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 33 (in text).
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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Canary Islands
    Asia: Georgia, Turkey
    Europe: Bulgaria, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Palearctic

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Camponotus sylvaticus   Forel, A., 1886, Études myrmécologiques en 1886., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 30, pp. 131-215: 13, (download) 13 3923
Camponotus sylvaticus   Emery, C., 1884, Materiali per lo studio della fauna Tunisina raccolti da G. e L. Doria. III. Rassegna delle formiche della Tunisia., Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova) 21, pp. 373-386: 375, (download) 375 3743
Camponotus rubripes   Forel, A., 1886, Études myrmécologiques en 1886., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 30, pp. 131-215: 13, (download) 13 3923
Camponotus sylvaticus   Forel, A., 1890, Fourmis de Tunisie et de l'Algérie orientale., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Comptes-rendus des Seances 34, pp. 61-76: 66, (download) 66 3926
Camponotus sylvaticus   Emery, C., 1877, Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte prima. Formiche provenienti dall Viaggio dei signori Antinori, Beccari e Issel nel Mar Rosso e nel paese de, Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova) 9, pp. 363-381: -1, (download) -1 3735

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 4 times found in Mediterranean open bush, 4 times found in maquis shrubland, 3 times found in Huerto Naranjos, 2 times found in Abandoned cultives, 2 times found in Arbustos, 1 times found in xerothermous open woodland, 1 times found in field near forest, 1 times found in Mediterranean forest (Quercus pyrenaea, Pinus, Castanea sativa, etc.), 1 times found in Pinus forest, 1 times found in Romero y coscoja, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 5 times Foraging, 3 times Nest under stone, 2 times under stone, 2 times Forrajeando, 1 times under small stone, 1 times under log (-10-0 cm), 1 times nbp, 1 times log.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 19 times Hand, 5 times search, 1 times pitfall.

Elevations: collected from 10 - 1250 meters, 309 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1923-01-13 00:00:00.0 and 2017-04-26 00:00:00.0

Type specimens: syntype of Camponotus catalanus: casent0905294, casent0905295



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