Camponotus floridanus

Camponotus floridanus
Camponotus floridanus worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. floridanus
Binomial name
Camponotus floridanus
(Buckley, 1866)

Camponotus floridanus, or Florida carpenter ant,[1] is a species of ant in the genus Camponotus.[2] First described as Formica floridana by Buckley in 1866,[3] the species was moved to Camponotus by Mayr in 1886.[4]

References

  1. Simola, D. F.; Ye, C.; Mutti, N. S.; Dolezal, K.; Bonasio, R.; Liebig, J.; Reinberg, D.; Berger, S. L. (2012). "A chromatin link to caste identity in the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus". Genome Research. 23 (3): 486. PMC 3589537Freely accessible. PMID 23212948. doi:10.1101/gr.148361.112.
  2. Bolton, B. (2015). "Camponotus floridanus". AntCat. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  3. Buckley, S. B. (1866). "Descriptions of new species of North American Formicidae". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 6: 152–172.
  4. Mayr, G. (1886). "Die Formiciden der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 36: 419–464.


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