Species
Camponotus laevigatus (Hairless smooth carpenter ant)
Camponotus laevigatus. Photo: (c) Don Loarie, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Camponotus laevigatus is a species of carpenter ant native to California. It nests in the dead branches of oaks such as Quercus wislizeni (interior live oak).
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Hymenoptera (Ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies)
- Suborder: Apocrita (Narrow-waisted wasps, ants, and bees)
- Infraorder: Aculeata (Ants, bees, and stinging wasps)
- Superfamily: Formicoidea
- Family: Formicidae (Ants)
- Subfamily: Formicinae (Formicine ants)
- Tribe: Camponotini (Camponotine ants)
- Genus: Camponotus (Carpenter ants, typical sugar ants and allies)
- Subgenus: Camponotus (True carpenter ants)
- Species: Camponotus laevigatus (Hairless smooth carpenter ant)
- Subgenus: Camponotus (True carpenter ants)
- Genus: Camponotus (Carpenter ants, typical sugar ants and allies)
- Tribe: Camponotini (Camponotine ants)
- Subfamily: Formicinae (Formicine ants)
- Family: Formicidae (Ants)
- Superfamily: Formicoidea
- Infraorder: Aculeata (Ants, bees, and stinging wasps)
- Suborder: Apocrita (Narrow-waisted wasps, ants, and bees)
- Order: Hymenoptera (Ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)