Camponotus planus - AntCat

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Camponotus planus Smith, 1877 valid

Camponotus planus Smith, 1877a: 83 (w.) ECUADOR (Galapagos Is). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Ecuador: Galapagos Is, Charles I. (= Floreana I.), 1835, (Voyage of the Beagle) (C. Darwin). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given.

Wheeler, 1919d: 287 (s.w.q.m.)
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmorhachis): Emery, 1920b: 260.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmocladoecus): Wheeler, 1924b: 118.
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 248; Emery, 1896j: 377 (in list); Wheeler, 1919d: 287; Wheeler, 1924b: 119; Emery, 1925d: 167; Stitz, 1932a: 371; Wheeler, 1935g: 44; Linsley & Usinger, 1966: 177; Kempf, 1972b: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 118; Herrera et al., 2024: 166.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. p. fernandinensis Wheeler, 1919
C. p. fidelis Wheeler, 1919
C. p. hephaestus Wheeler, 1933
C. p. indefessus Wheeler, 1919
C. p. isabelensis Wheeler, 1919
C. p. peregrinus Emery, 1893
C. p. pinzonensis Wheeler, 1919
C. p. sansalvadorensis Wheeler, 1924
C. p. santacruzensis Wheeler, 1919

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
Herrera, H. W.; Tocora, M. C.; Fiorentino, G.; Causton, C. E.; Dekoninck, W.; Hendrickx, F. 2024. The ants of the Galápagos Islands (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): a historical overview, checklist, and identification key. ZooKeys 1191:151-213. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1191.107324 PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Linsley, E. G.; Usinger, R. L. 1966. Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)33:113-196. PDF
Smith, F. 1877a. VIII. Hymenoptera and Diptera. Pp. 82-84 in: Günther, A. 1877. Account of the zoological collection made during the visit of H. M. S. "Peterel" to the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877:64-93.
Stitz, H. 1932a. Formicidae [of the Wollebaek Galapagos Expedition]. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 71:367-372.
Wheeler, W. M. 1919d. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906. XIV. The ants of the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)2(2):259-297.
Wheeler, W. M. 1924b. The Formicidae of the Harrison Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica (New York) 5:101-122. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

Extant: 9 valid subspecies

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