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#1 Offline MC Wren - Posted June 17 2017 - 5:25 PM

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On antmaps, if you click on New York, it lists Camponotus sericeiventris rex as a native species of New York. Why is this?!

#2 Offline MC Wren - Posted June 22 2017 - 10:12 AM

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Anybody know?

#3 Offline Cameron C. Thomas - Posted June 22 2017 - 10:33 AM

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AntMaps pulls data from museum collections as well as literature sources. I believe this record is likely due to a publication from William Wheeler on Csericeiventris from the 1930s in which stowaway workers were collected in New York from a ship. From the article text:

 

"Occasionally this ant is introduced into the United States on fruit boats. Mann found specimens of sericeiventris in a restaurant at Palo Alto, California, and I have received two specimens of rex, taken by Mr. F. M. Schott in New York City on a boat from Panama. In both cases the specimens probably arrived as stowaways in bunches of bananas."

 

Wheeler WM (1931) The ant Camponotus (Myrmepomis) sericeiventris Guérin and its mimic. Psyche 38:86-98.

 

 



#4 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted June 22 2017 - 10:43 AM

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AntMaps pulls data from museum collections as well as literature sources. I believe this record is likely due to a publication from William Wheeler on Csericeiventris from the 1930s in which stowaway workers were collected in New York from a ship. From the article text:

 

"Occasionally this ant is introduced into the United States on fruit boats. Mann found specimens of sericeiventris in a restaurant at Palo Alto, California, and I have received two specimens of rex, taken by Mr. F. M. Schott in New York City on a boat from Panama. In both cases the specimens probably arrived as stowaways in bunches of bananas."

 

Wheeler WM (1931) The ant Camponotus (Myrmepomis) sericeiventris Guérin and its mimic. Psyche 38:86-98.

I wonder why they were listed as native, then.  :thinking:



#5 Offline MC Wren - Posted June 22 2017 - 10:44 AM

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I really need to check out the bananas in my local supermarket! I wonder what ants I could find. I have found what I believe to be Hypoponera opacior in a greenhouse before, after all.
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#6 Offline Cameron C. Thomas - Posted June 22 2017 - 10:48 AM

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AntMaps pulls data from museum collections as well as literature sources. I believe this record is likely due to a publication from William Wheeler on Csericeiventris from the 1930s in which stowaway workers were collected in New York from a ship. From the article text:

 

"Occasionally this ant is introduced into the United States on fruit boats. Mann found specimens of sericeiventris in a restaurant at Palo Alto, California, and I have received two specimens of rex, taken by Mr. F. M. Schott in New York City on a boat from Panama. In both cases the specimens probably arrived as stowaways in bunches of bananas."

 

Wheeler WM (1931) The ant Camponotus (Myrmepomis) sericeiventris Guérin and its mimic. Psyche 38:86-98.

I wonder why they were listed as native, then.  :thinking:

 

 

Probably just a simple mistake. If you think about it, the GABI database--from which AntMaps pulls its data--is a massive endeavor that is compiling records of ant species across the entire planet. It's a work in progress, and with that much data, there are bound to be mistakes here and there. 






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