Camponotus striatus (Smith F., 1862)

Aguilar-Mendez, Mario J., Rosas-Mejia, Madai, Vasquez-Bolanos, Miguel, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Gloria Angelica & Janda, Milan, 2021, New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60630-60630 : 60630

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60630

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scientific name

Camponotus striatus (Smith F., 1862)
status

 

Camponotus striatus (Smith F., 1862)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Camponotus ; scientificNameAuthorship: Smith F., 1862); Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Nuevo León; locality: Cumbres (Estanzuela) ; verbatimElevation: 628.7 m; decimalLatitude: 25.55598; decimalLongitude: -100.26521; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2016; month: 9; day: 1; habitat: submontane shrubland GoogleMaps GoogleMaps

Distribution

Camponotus striatus (Smith F., 1862) were found in the Estanzuela locality of the Cumbres mountain system near Monterrey, Nuevo León (amt is 20.3 ºC and 55.6 mm/cm2 of amp) in a submontane shrubland. The species are distributed throughout Central and South America. In Mexico, they can be found from the Yucatán Peninsula to Tamaulipas, including in the Pacific coastal States of Jalisco and Nayarit.

Biology

Camponotus striatus has been found nesting inside logs and twigs in forests and coffee plantations in Chiapas at altitudes ranging from 650-900 m a.s.l. ( De la Mora et al. 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Camponotus