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Camponotus herculeanus

Hercules carpenter ant

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Camponotus herculeanus

AntCat · view at source · updated on 04/08/2026
Author: (Linnaeus, 1758) species Valid name

Formicidae

Camponotus herculeanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

Great Carpenter Ant

SPECIES Valid name

Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Camponotus

Camponotus enculus

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

About the species

species of insect

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no rights reserved, uploaded by Philipp Hoenle · CC0 · iNaturalist
(c) Jonghyun Park, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jonghyun Park · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Rasmus Allesoee, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Kim Falck, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Kim Falck · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
Occurrences (GBIF) 48 countries · 16656 records GBIF · updated on 17/10/2026 Maximize Minimize
Georeferenced points from GBIF. Click the map to use the scroll wheel; click a point to view the record.
Occurrences by year
1800: 12 1850: 2 1853: 2 1858: 4 1861: 4 1870: 2 1872: 8 1873: 1 1875: 2 1877: 1 1878: 18 1881: 5 1882: 12 1883: 1 1884: 1 1885: 7 1886: 6 1887: 2 1891: 2 1895: 4 1896: 1 1897: 17 1898: 2 1899: 3 1900: 1 1901: 9 1902: 5 1903: 1 1904: 8 1905: 67 1906: 5 1907: 8 1908: 6 1909: 4 1910: 1 1912: 10 1913: 7 1914: 7 1915: 94 1916: 22 1917: 53 1918: 8 1919: 4 1920: 6 1921: 7 1922: 12 1923: 41 1924: 30 1925: 20 1926: 24 1927: 10 1928: 12 1929: 9 1930: 18 1931: 31 1932: 18 1933: 48 1934: 34 1935: 35 1936: 20 1937: 19 1938: 64 1939: 64 1940: 196 1941: 72 1942: 21 1943: 29 1944: 27 1945: 43 1946: 63 1947: 79 1948: 58 1949: 77 1950: 80 1951: 68 1952: 106 1953: 42 1954: 100 1955: 71 1956: 37 1957: 27 1958: 30 1959: 29 1960: 73 1961: 88 1962: 56 1963: 99 1964: 218 1965: 157 1966: 32 1967: 35 1968: 29 1969: 60 1970: 22 1971: 31 1972: 75 1973: 56 1974: 93 1975: 89 1976: 102 1977: 34 1978: 22 1979: 30 1980: 42 1981: 37 1982: 98 1983: 78 1984: 8 1985: 19 1986: 12 1987: 32 1988: 40 1989: 30 1990: 12 1991: 24 1992: 51 1993: 34 1994: 27 1995: 28 1996: 46 1997: 45 1998: 41 1999: 57 2000: 72 2001: 50 2002: 60 2003: 34 2004: 145 2005: 50 2006: 191 2007: 157 2008: 278 2009: 451 2010: 272 2011: 197 2012: 765 2013: 903 2014: 728 2015: 459 2016: 447 2017: 258 2018: 248 2019: 945 2020: 512 2021: 547 2022: 730 2023: 773 2024: 828 2025: 784 2026: 615
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YearRecords
180012
18502
18532
18584
18614
18702
18728
18731
18752
18771
187818
18815
188212
18831
18841
18857
18866
18872
18912
18954
18961
189717
18982
18993
19001
19019
19025
19031
19048
190567
19065
19078
19086
19094
19101
191210
19137
19147
191594
191622
191753
19188
19194
19206
19217
192212
192341
192430
192520
192624
192710
192812
19299
193018
193131
193218
193348
193434
193535
193620
193719
193864
193964
1940196
194172
194221
194329
194427
194543
194663
194779
194858
194977
195080
195168
1952106
195342
1954100
195571
195637
195727
195830
195929
196073
196188
196256
196399
1964218
1965157
196632
196735
196829
196960
197022
197131
197275
197356
197493
197589
1976102
197734
197822
197930
198042
198137
198298
198378
19848
198519
198612
198732
198840
198930
199012
199124
199251
199334
199427
199528
199646
199745
199841
199957
200072
200150
200260
200334
2004145
200550
2006191
2007157
2008278
2009451
2010272
2011197
2012765
2013903
2014728
2015459
2016447
2017258
2018248
2019945
2020512
2021547
2022730
2023773
2024828
2025784
2026615
Canada · 4,190 United States · 3,066 Sweden · 2,529 Finland · 1,408 Switzerland · 942 Norway · 796 Germany · 721 Russia · 623 France · 563 Denmark · 399 Austria · 396 Poland · 292 Czechia · 127 Estonia · 112 Italy · 104 Lithuania · 56 Spain · 45 Ukraine · 37 Slovakia · 36 Åland Islands · 25 Romania · 21 Serbia · 17 Belarus · 17 Belgium · 15 Hungary · 13 Japan · 13 Bulgaria · 8 Luxembourg · 8 Andorra · 7 Croatia · 7 Slovenia · 7 Latvia · 7 Kazakhstan · 7 China · 6 Georgia · 6 Greenland · 5 St. Pierre & Miquelon · 4 Mongolia · 4 United Kingdom · 4 Türkiye · 3 Ireland · 2 Netherlands · 2 Bosnia & Herzegovina · 1 Mexico · 1 Pakistan · 1 Taiwan · 1 Liechtenstein · 1 Greece · 1
Väderlanda Gamla skola, Sm, Sweden 13/10/2026 · User93658 · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Fornstigen , Valdemarsvik, Ög, Sweden 13/10/2026 · User10120 · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Trollskogen, Öl, Sweden 06/10/2026 · User10312, User10305 · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Germany 02/10/2026 · Lippi · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Finland 01/10/2026 · Pyry Liedes · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record
Svarthaugen, Namsskogan, Tø, Norway 23/09/2026 · Svein Harald Selliseth · nbic · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record
Canada 23/09/2026 · lily_arthurs · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Canada 23/09/2026 · vivlr08 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
United States 22/09/2026 · floridamatt · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Germany 19/09/2026 · Anne Heckmann · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

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