Camponotus burtoni

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Camponotus burtoni Mann, 1916 junior synonym of current valid taxon Camponotus helleri Emery, 1903

Camponotus (Myrmamblys) burtoni Mann, 1916: 479, pl. 6, figs. 45, 46 (s.) BRAZIL (Rondônia). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay, 2025: 108). Primary type locality: lectotype Brazil: Rondônia, Rio Madeira, Madeira-Mamoré Km 284, R. R. Camp 41, # 21604 (Mann & Baker). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: 1) Original type data: 3 syntype major workers. Brazil: Mato Grosso (now Rondônia), Madeira-Mamoré Railroad Company Camps 39 and 41, 1911, (Stanford Expd.) (W.M. Mann). Deposited in MCZC. 2) MacKay, 2025: 108, says that the specimen from Camp 39 was not found.

Lectotype designation: MacKay, 2025: 108.
Combination in Camponotus (Hypercolobopsis): Emery, 1920b: 260.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmobrachys): Emery, 1925d: 166.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 166; Borgmeier, 1927c: 156; Kempf, 1972b: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 90.
Junior synonym of Camponotus helleri: MacKay, 2025: 102.

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
Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 8:229-260. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
MacKay, W. P. 2025. New World Camponotus. Volume 2: Subgenus Myrmaphaenus, Part 1. Species complexes coruscus, cressoni, femoratus, frontalis, heathi, mina, novogranadensis and sphaericus. Saarbrücken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 513 pp. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1916. The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director. The ants of Brazil. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60:399-490. PDF

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