Definition of Genus Camponotus

1. Noun. Carpenter ants.

Exact synonyms: Camponotus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Formicidae, Formicidae
Member holonyms: Carpenter Ant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Camponotus

genus Calosoma
genus Caltha
genus Calvatia
genus Calycanthus
genus Calycophyllum
genus Calymmatobacterium
genus Calypso
genus Calystegia
genus Cambarus
genus Camelina
genus Camellia
genus Camelus
genus Campanula
genus Campephilus
genus Camponotus (current term)
genus Camptosorus
genus Campyloneurum
genus Campylorhynchus
genus Canachites
genus Cananga
genus Canangium
genus Canavalia
genus Cancer
genus Candida
genus Canella
genus Canis
genus Canna
genus Cannabis
genus Cantharellus

Literary usage of Genus Camponotus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"The genus Camponotus (the carpenter ants) is found everywhere in North America (also on other continents) from the tops of the highest mountains to the ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"... on chinch-bug and on a vespa, and S. minimum Speg. on a black ant of the genus Camponotus. A bibliography of 76 numbers is appended. ..."

3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1921)
"Wheeler, WM—Professor Emery's subgenera of the genus Camponotus. 5, xxviii, 16-19. Banks, N.—New Nearctic fossorial H. 7, xiv, 16-26. ..."

4. Across Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1912)
"... one of which must have been brought in separately by the insect, which is one of the many species of the genus Camponotus (Camponotus denticulatus). ..."

5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"386 : " Our Australian honey ants belong to the genus Camponotus, members of which are found in all parts of the world, and are known as ' sugar-ants,' from ..."

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