Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Formica vaga Scopoli, 1763 PDF: 312 (w.) SLOVENIA. Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Slovenia (“Carniola”): (no further data) (
Scopoli?). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes:
Horn & Kahle, 1936: 252, say something about a shipwreck concerning Scopoli’s collection, and then “destroyed by fire”.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Subspecies of
Camponotus herculeanus:
Emery, 1896j PDF: 372 (in list);
Emery, 1908a PDF: 185;
Bondroit, 1910 PDF: 488;
Krausse, 1912c PDF: 166;
Stitz, 1914 PDF: 95;
Escherich, 1917: 330 (in key);
Karavaiev, 1926e PDF: 192;
Karavaiev, 1927a PDF: 295;
Teranishi, 1940: 72;
Azuma, 1951 PDF: 88.
Status as species:
Gmelin, 1790 PDF: 2804;
Christ, 1791 PDF: 512;
Olivier, 1792: 492;
Emery, 1891c: 20;
Forel, 1892j PDF: 306;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 255;
Ruzsky, 1896 PDF: 68;
Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 5;
Forel, 1904c PDF: 380;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 241;
Forel, 1907h PDF: 15;
Forel, 1914a PDF: 266;
Forel, 1915d: 68 (in key);
Emery, 1916a PDF: 225;
Menozzi, 1918 PDF: 87;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 71;
Nadig, 1918 PDF: 340;
Emery, 1920b PDF: 255;
Menozzi, 1921 PDF: 32;
Kulmatycki, 1922 PDF: 85;
Soudek, 1922b PDF: 94;
Müller, 1923a PDF: 73;
Müller, 1923b PDF: 158;
Finzi, 1923a PDF: 4;
Finzi, 1924a PDF: 14;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 74;
Schkaff, 1925b PDF: 275;
Santschi, 1926f PDF: 288;
Karavaiev, 1927d: 275 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1927a PDF: 8;
Lomnicki, 1928 PDF: 10;
Santschi, 1929e PDF: 158;
Finzi, 1930d PDF: 317;
Santschi, 1931a: 11;
Santschi, 1932e PDF: 71;
Santschi, 1932h PDF: 4;
Arnol'di, 1933a: 602 (in key);
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 103;
Zimmermann, 1935 PDF: 57;
Karavaiev, 1936: 182 (redescription);
Stitz, 1939: 246;
Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 110 (in key);
Röszler, 1950 PDF: 210;
Donisthorpe, 1950e PDF: 1066;
Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951 PDF: 31;
Consani & Zangheri, 1952 PDF: 43;
Ceballos, 1956: 315;
Pisarski, 1961 PDF: 161;
Baroni Urbani, 1964c PDF: 162;
Cagniant, 1964 PDF: 90;
Arnol'di, 1967 PDF: 1827;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 341 (redescription);
Cagniant, 1968a PDF: 146;
Kutter, 1968b PDF: 60;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 81;
Cagniant, 1970c PDF: 37;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 179;
Collingwood, 1971 PDF: 164;
Pisarski, 1975: 30; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 551;
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 90 (in key);
Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 90;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 59;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 283 (in key);
Le Moli & Rosi, 1991: 34;
Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 214;
Bolton, 1995b: 128;
Douwes, 1995: 92;
Poldi et al., 1995: 7;
Cagniant, 1996b: 92;
Radchenko, 1996e: 1202 (in key);
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 27;
Radchenko, 1997b PDF: 558;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 24 (in key);
Gallé et al., 1998: 216;
Czechowski et al., 2002 PDF: 97;
Karaman & Karaman, 2003 PDF: 48;
Csosz & Markó, 2005 PDF: 228;
Karaman & Karaman, 2005 PDF: 59;
Bračko, 2006 PDF: 146;
Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 194;
Markó et al., 2006 PDF: 67;
Bračko, 2007 PDF: 19;
Seifert, 2007: 264;
Werner & Wiezik, 2007 PDF: 143;
Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007 PDF: 233;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 131;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 480;
Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 46;
Boer, 2010: 19;
Csosz et al., 2011 PDF: 58;
Karaman, 2011b PDF: 74;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 33;
Ran & Zhou, 2011: 70;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 483;
Czechowski et al., 2012: 245;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 30;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 8;
Karaman & Aktaç, 2013 PDF: 51 (in key);
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 45 (see note in bibliography);
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 18;
Lebas et al., 2016: 130;
Radchenko, 2016: 331;
Steiner et al., 2017: 7;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 43;
Seifert, 2018: 259;
Werner et al., 2018 PDF: 6;
Arcos et al., 2022 10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7623 PDF: 10;
Borowiec & Salata, 2022 PDF: 63 (redescription).
Senior synonym of
Camponotus pubescens (Fabricius, 1775):
Olivier, 1792: 492;
Latreille, 1802a PDF: 96;
Fabricius, 1804 PDF: 399;
Stephens, 1829b: 356;
Nylander, 1846a PDF: 899;
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 310;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 11;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 1;
André, 1874c: 201 (in list);
Forel, 1874 PDF: 96 (in list);
Forel, 1879a PDF: 56;
Emery, 1891c: 20;
Forel, 1892j PDF: 306;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 255;
Emery, 1896j PDF: 372 (in list);
Ruzsky, 1905b: 241;
Forel, 1907h PDF: 15;
Bondroit, 1910 PDF: 488;
Forel, 1915d: 68 (in key);
Emery, 1916a PDF: 225;
Soudek, 1922b PDF: 94;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 74;
Lomnicki, 1928 PDF: 10;
Karavaiev, 1936: 183;
Pisarski, 1961 PDF: 161;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 341;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 179;
Pisarski, 1975: 30;
Bolton, 1995b: 128;
Radchenko, 1997b PDF: 558;
Gallé et al., 1998: 216;
Czechowski et al., 2002 PDF: 97;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 480;
Csosz et al., 2011 PDF: 58;
Czechowski et al., 2012: 245;
Radchenko, 2016: 331.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria Asia: China,
Georgia,
Turkey Europe: Albania,
Andorra,
Austria,
Balearic Islands,
Belarus,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Croatia,
Czech Republic,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Hungary,
Italy,
Latvia,
Liechtenstein,
Lithuania,
Luxembourg,
Macedonia,
Moldova,
Montenegro,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Russia,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Ukraine Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Palearctic Native to (according to species list records)
: Palearctic bioregion
Distribution Notes:
Throughout SLO
Biology:
Mostly open forests and forest edges, nests in dead wood
Notes:
(Dutch vernacular name: zwarte reuzenmier)
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Camponotus vagus |
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Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 8, pp. 368-388: 13, (download) |
13 |
3994
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Camponotus vagus |
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Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 90, (download) |
90 |
6175
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 4 times found in deciduous forest, 3 times found in garden, 1 times found in Ruderal, 2 times found in mountain deciduous forest, 1 times found in pine forest with rocks, 1 times found in forest edge, 1 times found in river bank, 1 times found in from sand dunes, 1 times found in steppe near river, 1 times found in Mediterranean forest (Pinus, Castanea sativa, etc.), ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 3 times on ground, 1 times Preying on dead lizzard, 2 times on a fallen tree trunk, 2 times ground foragers, 2 times Foraging, 1 times under stone, 1 times road side, 1 times on wood, 1 times on trunk of coniferous tree, 1 times on trunk, 1 times on path, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 10 times search, 6 times Hand, 1 times Manual catch.
Elevations: collected from 2 - 1400 meters, 572 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1840-08-31 00:00:00.0 and 2022-07-17 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: syntype of Camponotus vagus kodorica: casent0909957
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