New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico Author Aguilar-Mendez, Mario J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1550-0062 Departamento de Biologia, Division de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico & Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingenieria Campus Guanajuato (UPIIG), Silao de la Victoria, Guanajuato, Mexico Author Rosas-Mejia, Madai Instituto de Ecologia Aplicada, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico Author Vasquez-Bolanos, Miguel Entomologia, Departamento de Boatanica y Zoologia, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biologicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico Author Gonzalez-Hernandez, Gloria Angelica Departamento de Biologia, Division de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Author Janda, Milan Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic & Catedras CONACYT, Laboratorio Nacional de Analisis y Sintesis Ecologica, ENES, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Morelia, Mexico jandamil@gmail.com text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-05-10 9 60630 60630 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60630 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60630 1314-2828-9-e60630 B5679B196D375F5B95C650A592DE15C0 Camponotus coruscus (Smith F., 1862) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : lifeStage: adult ; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon : kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Camponotus ; scientificNameAuthorship: ( Smith F. , 1862); Location : country: Mexico ; stateProvince: Nuevo Leon ; locality: Cumbres ; verbatimElevation: 422.4 m ; decimalLatitude: 25.44029 ; decimalLongitude: -100.09637 ; Identification : identifiedBy: Aguilar-Mendez M.J. ; Rosas-Mejia M. ; Vasquez-Bolanos M. ; Event : samplingProtocol: Hand collecting ; year: 2016; month: 9; day: 2; habitat: human settlement Distribution Camponotus coruscus (Smith F., 1862) were found foraging in a human settlement at the ridge of the Cumbres mountain range near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon . The amt at the locality is 21.3 °C and 74.4 mm/cm2 of amp. Camponotus coruscus have been found in forests and near human settlements in Costa Rica ( Longino 2002 ). This species has been previously recorded from south and central America, from Colombia to southern Mexico. Our findings expand their known distribution range by 139 km to the north.