Species Camponotus terebrans (Lowne, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Formica terebrans Lowne, B.T. 1865. Contributions to the natural history of Australian ants. The Entomologist 2: 275-280 [278].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (probable) *W,Q, Sidney (=Sydney), NSW.
• Camponotus (Myrmoturba) latrunculus victoriensis Santschi, F. 1928. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56: 465-483 [30 Aug. 1928] [479].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BNHM W,M, Elsternwick and Belgrave, VIC.

  Type locality references:

  The Zoological Society of London 1929. The Zoological Record. Vol. 65 relating chiefly to the year 1928. London : Gurney & Jackson.
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) myoporus Clark, J. 1938. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. No. 2. Sir Joseph Bank Islands. Part I. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 50: 356-382 [379].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV *W, Reevesby Is., SA.
• Formica testaceipes Smith, F. 1858. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 6. Formicidae. London : British Museum 216 pp. 14 pls. [27 Mar. 1858] [39].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH *W, King George's Sound (=King George Sound), WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Emery, C. 1925. Hymenoptera fam. Formicidae, subfam. Formicinae. pp. 1–302 in Wytsman, P. (ed.) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 183 pp. [102]
• Brown, W.L. jr 1956. Some synonymies in the ant genus Camponotus. Psyche (Cambridge) 63: 38-40 [39]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

General References

McArthur, A.J., Adams, M. & Shattuck, S.O. 1997. A morphological and molecular review of Camponotus terebrans (Lowne) (Hymenoptera : Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 579-598 [587] (revision)

History of changes