Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Camponotus planus peregrinus
Hormiga carpintera, Carpenter ant
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Suborder
Apocrita
Superfamily
Vespoidea
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Camponotus
Species
planus
Subspecies
peregrinus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Emery, C. (1893) Notice sur quelques fourmis des iles Galapagos Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62:89-92.
- Herrera, H. W., Tocora, M. C., Fiorentino, G., Causton, C. E., Dekoninck, W., & Hendrickx, F. (2024) The ants of the Galápagos Islands (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): a historical overview, checklist, and identification key. ZooKeys, 1191, 151.
- Linsley, E.G. Usinger, R.L. (1966) Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series 33(7): 113-196.
- Stitz, H. (1932) The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, Conducted by Alf Wollebæk. 5. Formicidae. Med. Zool. Mus., Oslo 31: 367-372.
- Wheeler, W.M. (1933) The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932. No. 6 Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sc., Fourth Series 21(6): 57-64.
- Wheeler, W.M. (1924) The Formicidae of the Harrison Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica 5(10): 101-122.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Camponotus planus peregrinus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=13079. Accessed 31 October 2026.