Genus Camponotus Mayr, 1861

Museums

Regional Maps

• Camponotus Mayr, G.L. 1861. Die europëischen Formiciden. (Ameisen.) Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Vienna : Carl Gerolds Sohn 80 pp. 1 pl. [35].

  Type species:

   Formica ligniperda Latreille, 1802 by subsequent designation, see Bingham, C.T. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. Ants and cuckoo-wasps. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2 507 pp. 1 pl. [347].

Introduction

Two unidentified species reported from Christmas Island (Framenau & Thomas 2008).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Carnarvon (CAR) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Kanmantoo (KAN) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Victorian Midlands (VM) ; NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Esperance Plains (ESP) ; NT: Central Arnhem (CA) ; NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; SA: Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Warren (WAR)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Framenau, V.W. & Thomas, M.L. 2008. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): identification and distribution. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 45-85 [61]

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