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Camponotus herculeanus

Hercules carpenter ant

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Camponotus herculeanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

Hercules Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Camponotus

Camponotus enculus

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

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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) 46 countries · 16389 records GBIF · updated on 05/07/2026 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: 10 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: 23 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: 7 1930: 18 1931: 31 1932: 18 1933: 48 1934: 32 1935: 35 1936: 17 1937: 19 1938: 62 1939: 63 1940: 192 1941: 70 1942: 18 1943: 29 1944: 23 1945: 34 1946: 63 1947: 79 1948: 58 1949: 78 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: 35 1978: 23 1979: 30 1980: 42 1981: 37 1982: 98 1983: 78 1984: 8 1985: 19 1986: 12 1987: 34 1988: 44 1989: 30 1990: 15 1991: 25 1992: 63 1993: 34 1994: 27 1995: 28 1996: 46 1997: 45 1998: 50 1999: 57 2000: 69 2001: 50 2002: 62 2003: 34 2004: 145 2005: 50 2006: 190 2007: 157 2008: 280 2009: 451 2010: 274 2011: 199 2012: 765 2013: 905 2014: 732 2015: 459 2016: 447 2017: 259 2018: 252 2019: 974 2020: 520 2021: 545 2022: 726 2023: 769 2024: 822 2025: 765 2026: 328
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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
190110
19025
19031
19048
190567
19065
19078
19086
19094
19101
191210
19137
19147
191594
191623
191753
19188
19194
19206
19217
192212
192341
192430
192520
192624
192710
192812
19297
193018
193131
193218
193348
193432
193535
193617
193719
193862
193963
1940192
194170
194218
194329
194423
194534
194663
194779
194858
194978
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
197735
197823
197930
198042
198137
198298
198378
19848
198519
198612
198734
198844
198930
199015
199125
199263
199334
199427
199528
199646
199745
199850
199957
200069
200150
200262
200334
2004145
200550
2006190
2007157
2008280
2009451
2010274
2011199
2012765
2013905
2014732
2015459
2016447
2017259
2018252
2019974
2020520
2021545
2022726
2023769
2024822
2025765
2026328
Canada · 4,133 United States · 3,016 Sweden · 2,504 Finland · 1,406 Switzerland · 1,009 Norway · 775 Germany · 701 Russia · 564 France · 543 Denmark · 396 Austria · 388 Poland · 288 Estonia · 112 Czechia · 108 Italy · 90 Lithuania · 54 Spain · 37 Slovakia · 37 Ukraine · 36 Åland Islands · 25 Serbia · 17 Belarus · 16 Romania · 15 Japan · 14 Hungary · 13 Belgium · 13 Andorra · 7 Bulgaria · 7 Luxembourg · 7 China · 6 Croatia · 6 Slovenia · 6 Greenland · 5 Mongolia · 4 Latvia · 4 Georgia · 4 St. Pierre & Miquelon · 4 Kazakhstan · 4 United Kingdom · 4 Turkey · 3 Ireland · 2 Netherlands · 2 Bosnia & Herzegovina · 1 Mexico · 1 Pakistan · 1 Taiwan · 1
Knappåstjønnan, Tolga, In, Norway 02/07/2026 · Kirsti Ladstein · nbic · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record
Canada 28/06/2026 · Graydon Gillies · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Norway 28/06/2026 · Female · Eskil · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
United States 28/06/2026 · timmy555 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Norway 28/06/2026 · Magnus Barz · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Russia 28/06/2026 · Михаил Языков · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record
Russia 28/06/2026 · Female · Kseniia_R · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Russia 28/06/2026 · Female · Михаил Языков · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 27/06/2026 · Davide · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Germany 26/06/2026 · jonas_ants · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

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