Species Camponotus whitei Wheeler, 1915

Museums

Regional Maps

• Camponotus (Myrmosphincta) whitei Wheeler, W.M. 1915. Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39: 805-823 pls 64-66 [Dec. 1915] [818].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, Flat Rock Hole in the Musgrave Ranges, SA.
• Camponotus (Myrmosaulus) scutellus Clark, J. 1930. Some new Australian Formicidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 42: 116-128 [10 Mar. 1930] [123].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV *W, Tammin, Emu Rocks, Bungulla and Merredin, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1956. Some synonymies in the ant genus Camponotus. Psyche (Cambridge) 63: 38-40 [40]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

W plateau, SW coastal, SA, WA.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Desert, noctidiurnal, omnivore, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

 

History of changes

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23-Mar-2015		21-Jun-2013	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		18-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		25-May-2010	MODIFIED