This species inhabits mature wet to moist forest habitats. It is usually encountered as individual foragers on vegetation in the forest understory. Foragers appear to be strictly nocturnal; I have only seen foragers at night. I have twice collected major workers, also as isolated workers collected at night. On one of the occasions there were raiding army ants in the vicinity, so it could be that major workers are only encountered when they are flushed by army ants. I have never found a nest.
At La Selva this species has been collected mainly by manual search at night, although a few workers and an alate queen were collected in a Malaise trap. The species has not occurred in canopy fogging samples. Thus C. ager appears to be a relatively low density species, and the nesting habits are completely unknown. In spite of its apparent low density, workers are relatively easy to find because they are dramatically large ants, easily seen at night by searching with a flashlight.
Costa Rica to Brazil. Costa Rica: moist and wet forested habitats throughout the country, sea level to 500m elevation (Braulio Carrillo National Park, La Selva, Est. Maritza in Guanacaste Conservation Area, Hitoy Cerere, Osa Peninsula, Carara).
Taxonomic history
Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b PDF: 5.Combination in Camponotus (Myrmogigas): Forel, 1912j PDF: 91.Combination in Camponotus (Dinomyrmex): Forel, 1914a PDF: 268.Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d PDF: 83.Status as species: Mayr, 1863a PDF: 411; Roger, 1863b PDF: 5; Mayr, 1886c PDF: 356; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 221; Emery, 1896j PDF: 371 (in list); Forel, 1899b PDF: 137; Emery, 1903: 77; Forel, 1911e PDF: 310; Wheeler, 1916c PDF: 14; Wheeler, 1916f PDF: 330; Luederwaldt, 1918 PDF: 50; Wheeler, 1922e PDF: 15; Emery, 1925d PDF: 83; Borgmeier, 1927c PDF: 147; Menozzi, 1935b PDF: 200; Kempf, 1961b PDF: 522; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 84; Guénard & Economo, 2015 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.8: 227; Mackay & MacKay, 2019 PDF: 751.[Note: Forel, 1886h PDF: 167 suggests that Camponotus ager may be the minor worker of Camponotus egregius.].Camponotus ager is een mierensoort uit de onderfamilie van de schubmieren (Formicinae).[1][2] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1858 door Smith, F..
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Camponotus ager é uma espécie de inseto do gênero Camponotus, pertencente à família Formicidae.[1]
Camponotus ager é uma espécie de inseto do gênero Camponotus, pertencente à família Formicidae.
