Camponotus ramulorum - AntCat

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Camponotus ramulorum Wheeler, 1905 valid

Camponotus inaequalis var. ramulorum Wheeler, 1905c: 114, figs. S-U (s.w.q.m.) BAHAMAS (Andros, New Providence). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “many colonies”). Primary type localities: Bahamas: New Providence I., Blue Hills, v.-vi.1904 (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 71; no lectotype designated), Bahamas: New Providence I., Fort Charlotte, Hog Key nr Nassau, v.-vi.1904 (W.M. Wheeler), Bahamas: Andros I., “all the keys that were visited along the Southern Bight and about Crawl Creek”, v.-vi.1904 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.

Combination in Camponotus (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1914a: 267.
Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 82.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1913b: 503; Mann, 1920b: 435; Emery, 1925d: 82; Wheeler, 1937b: 459; Smith, 1954c: 12; Kempf, 1972b: 71; Alayo, 1974: 27 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 119.

Obsolete combinations

Camponotus inaequalis ramulorum

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. r. marcidus Wheeler, 1905
C. r. mestrei Wheeler, 1913
C. r. vernulus Wheeler, 1936

Citations

Alayo, P. 1974. Introducción al estudio de los Himenópteros de Cuba. Superfamilia Formicoidea. Serie Biológica. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 53:1-58. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 22:257-276. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42:403-439. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1954c. Ants of the Bimini Island Group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1671:1-16. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1905c. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:79-135. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1913b. The ants of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 54:477-505. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1937b. Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 81:439-465. PDF

Extant: 3 valid subspecies

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