Camponotus gombaki
Dumpert, 1986
valid
Camponotus (Karavaievia) gombaki
Dumpert, 1986:
563, figs. 3, 4 (w.q.)
WEST MALAYSIA.
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Malaysia: Selangor, Gombak Valley, ca 25 km. N Kuala Lumpur, 15.ii.1984 (U. Mascwitz). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 20 paratype workers, 5 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, KDPC, MCZC, MNKL.
Type notes:
The paratype queens are referred to as “gynetypes”.
- Dumpert, 1995: 101 (m.)
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 102; Dumpert et al., 1995: 104 (in key); Dumpert et al., 2006: 78 (in key).
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Dumpert, K. 1986 ("1985"). Camponotus (Karavaievia) texens sp. n. and C. (K.) gombaki sp. n. from Malaysia in comparison with other Karavaievia species (Formicidae: Formicinae). Psyche (Cambridge) 92:557-573.
- Dumpert, K. 1995. Taxonomy. Pp. 88-102 in: Dumpert, K.; Maschwitz, U.; Weissflog, A.; Rosciszewski, K.; Azarae, I. 1995. Six new weaver ant species from Malaysia: Camponotus (Karavaievia) striatipes, C. (K.) melanus, C. (K.) nigripes, C. (K.) belumensis, C. (K.) gentingensis, and C. (K.) micragyne. Malaysian Journal of Science. Series A. Life Sciences 16:87-105.
- Dumpert, K.; Maschwitz, U.; Weissflog, A. 2006. Description of five new weaver ant species of Camponotus subgenus Karavaievia Emery, 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Malaysia and Thailand, with contribution to their biology, especially to colony foundation. Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:69-82. PDF
- Dumpert, K.; Maschwitz, U.; Weissflog, A.; Rosciszewski, K.; Azarae, I. 1995. Six new weaver ant species from Malaysia: Camponotus (Karavaievia) striatipes, C. (K.) melanus, C. (K.) nigripes, C. (K.) belumensis, C. (K.) gentingensis, and C. (K.) micragyne. Malaysian Journal of Science. Series A. Life Sciences 16:87-105.