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Camponotus darwinii Forel, 1886 valid

Camponotus darwinii Forel, 1886h: 179 (s.w.q.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype minor worker (by designation of Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 182). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: “Centre de Madagascar” (no further data) [Ambatomanjaka, Miarinarivo, -18.766947, 46.869107, 1343 m] (J.M. Hildebrandt). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101391 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 5 paralectotype major workers, 1 paralectotype alate queen. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, ZMHB. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0101385 (queen), CASENT0101386, CASENT0104426, CASENT0104427, FOCOL2468, FOCOL2469. Type notes: Queen caste is not mentioned in the original description.

Senior synonym of Camponotus darwinii rubropilosus: Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 183.
Lectotype designation: Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 182.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmobrachys): Forel, 1914a: 270.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmepomis): Emery, 1920b: 258.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmopiromis): Wheeler, 1922: 1051.
Combination in Camponotus (Mayria): Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 147.
Status as species: Forel, 1891c: 43 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 228; Emery, 1896j: 377 (in list); Wheeler, 1922: 1051; Emery, 1925d: 128; Bolton, 1995b: 95; Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 182 (redescription).
Material of the unavailable name Camponotus darwinii rubropilosus robustior referred here by Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 183.

Junior synonyms

Camponotus darwinii rubropilosus Forel, 1891

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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. 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
Forel, A. 1886h. Études myrmécologiques en 1886. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:131-215. PDF
Forel, A. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 22:257-276. PDF
Rasoamanana, N.; Fisher, B. L. 2022. A taxonomic revision of the Malagasy endemic subgenus Mayria of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) based on qualitative morphology and quantitative morphometric analyses. ZooKeys 1081:137-231. 10.3897/zookeys.1081.71872 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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