Camponotus quercicola

Camponotus quercicola is a species of ant in the family Formicidae that is endemic to California and commonly nests in oak trees, as they usually inhabit oak forests.[1][2][3][4]

Camponotus quercicola
Profile view of ant Camponotus quercicola specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. quercicola
Binomial name
Camponotus quercicola Smith, 1954

References

1. "Camponotus quercicola Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
2. "Camponotus quercicola Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
3. "Camponotus quercicola Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
4. "AntWeb". California Academy of Sciences.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Bolton, B.; Alpert, G.; Naskrecki, S.; Ward, P. (2007). A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World 1758–2005.
• Sharkey, M.J. (2007). "Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 309: 13–48.
• Hansson, C; Lachaud, J; Pérez-Lachaud, G (2011). "Entedoninae wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) associated with ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in tropical America, with new species and notes on their biology". ZooKeys (134): 62–82. doi:10.3897/zookeys.134.1653. PMC 3229211. PMID 22140342.
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Gilbert, Arthur J. (2001). "New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles". Insecta Mundi. 15 (1): 1–17.
• Sharkey, M.J.; Carpenter, J.M.; Vilhelmsen, L. (2012). "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera". Cladistics. 28(1): 80-112.
• Ward, P.S. (2007). "Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants". Zootaxa. 1668.