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Species of Japanese carpenter ant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Camponotus bishamon (ホソウメマツオオアリ, Hoso Umematsu Ōari) is a species of carpenter ant endemic to Japan.[2]
Camponotus bishamon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Genus: | Camponotus |
Subgenus: | Myrmamblys |
Species: | C. bishamon |
Binomial name | |
Camponotus bishamon Terayama, 1999[1] | |
This major workers of this species have a head that is almost as wide as it is long, with subparallel sides and an almost straight posterior margin in full view. Anterior margin clypeus slightly convex. Mandible has five teeth and eyes are flat. Antenae scrape extending past the posterior margin by about 1/5 of its length. [3]
This species of ant is endemic to Japan, and is particularly common around the Nansei Islands.[3]
Camponotus bishamon is an arboreal, or tree-dwelling, species of carpenter ant.[3]
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