Camponotus ager
(Smith, 1858)
valid
Formica agra
Smith, 1858a:
47 (w.)
BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis (coll. H. Clark) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 65). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes:
Other original syntype locality: Colombia: (no further data) (coll. H. Clark).
- Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 5.
- Combination in Camponotus (Myrmogigas): Forel, 1912j: 91.
- Combination in Camponotus (Dinomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 268.
- Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 83.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 411; Roger, 1863b: 5; Mayr, 1886c: 356; Dalla Torre, 1893: 221; Emery, 1896j: 371 (in list); Forel, 1899b: 137; Emery, 1903: 77; Forel, 1911e: 310; Wheeler, 1916c: 14; Wheeler, 1916f: 330; Luederwaldt, 1918: 50; Wheeler, 1922e: 15; Emery, 1925d: 83; Borgmeier, 1927c: 147; Menozzi, 1935b: 200; Kempf, 1961b: 522; Kempf, 1972b: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 84; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 227; Mackay & MacKay, 2019: 751.
- [Note: Forel, 1886h: 167 suggests that Camponotus ager may be the minor worker of Camponotus egregius.]
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)5:363-382 [pagination of separate: 761-780]. PDF
- Emery, C. 1903. Intorno ad alcune specie di Camponotus dell'America Meridionale. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (n.s.)7:62-81.
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
- Forel, A. 1886h. Études myrmécologiques en 1886. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:131-215. PDF
- Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
- Forel, A. 1911e. Ameisen des Herrn Prof. v. Ihering aus Brasilien (Sao Paulo usw.) nebst einigen anderen aus Südamerika und Afrika (Hym.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1911:285-312. PDF
- Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:59-92. PDF
- Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 22:257-276. PDF
- Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P. 2015. Additions to the checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Peru. Zootaxa 4040 (2):225-235. 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.8
- Kempf, W. W. 1961b. A survey of the ants of the soil fauna in Surinam (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:481-524. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
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- Mayr, G. 1886c. Notizen über die Formiciden-Sammlung des British Museum in London. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36:353-368. PDF
- Menozzi, C. 1935b. Spedizione del Prof. Nello Beccari nella Guiana Britannica. Hymenoptera-Formicidae. Redia 21:189-203. PDF
- Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
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