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Definition of Genus Camponotus
1. Noun. Carpenter ants.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Formicidae, Formicidae
Member holonyms: Carpenter Ant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Camponotus
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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