Camponotus strangulatus
Santschi, 1911
valid
Camponotus maculatus st. strangulatus
Santschi, 1911e:
129, fig. 3 (s.w.q.)
MADAGASCAR.
Malagasy.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 164). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: Vitikampy; Morondava. Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101097 (lectotype).
Type notes:
Santschi includes minor worker and queen syntypes in his description, not mentioned by Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 164, which would also be paralectotypes.
- Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 164.
- Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosaga): Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 4.
- Subspecies of Camponotus maculatus: Wheeler, 1922: 1042; Bolton, 1995b: 125.
- Status as species: Olson & Ward, 1996: 164; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 164 (redescription).
- Senior synonym of Camponotus hova maculatoides: Emery, 1920d: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 125; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 164.
- [Note: Emery gives Camponotus hova maculatoides as senior synonym, but Camponotus strangulatus has priority (Bolton, 1995b: 125).]
Junior synonyms
- Camponotus hova maculatoides Emery, 1920
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Emery, C. 1920d. Studi sui Camponotus. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 52:3-48. 10.5281/zenodo.25547 PDF
- Olson, D. M.; Ward, P. S. 1996. The ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Kirindy Forest (tropical dry forest) in western Madagascar. Pp. 161-164 in: Ganzhorn, J. U.; Sorg, J.-P. (eds.) 1996. Ecology and economy of a tropical dry forest in Madagascar. Primate Report 46-1. Göttingen: German Primate Center (DPZ), 382 pp. PDF
- Rakotonirina, J. C.; Fisher, B. L. 2022. Revision of the Malagasy Camponotus subgenus Myrmosaga (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using qualitative and quantitative morphology. ZooKeys 1098:1-180. 10.3897/zookeys.1098.73223 PDF
- Santschi, F. 1911e. Nouvelles fourmis de Madagascar. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 19:117-134. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.