Camponotus (Myrmolophus) - AntCat

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Camponotus (Myrmolophus) Emery, 1920 junior synonym of current valid taxon Camponotus (Myrmepomis) Forel, 1912

Myrmolophus Emery, 1920b: 237 [as subgenus of Camponotus] Type-species: Formica sericeiventris (obsolete combination of Camponotus sericeiventris), by original designation.

Myrmolophus as subgenus of Camponotus: Emery, 1920b: 237.
Camponotus (Myrmolophus) as junior synonym of Camponotus (Myrmepomis): Wheeler, 1921a: 17; Wheeler, 1922: 705; Emery, 1925d: 170; Bolton, 1995b: 37; Bolton, 2003: 116.
[Note: Camponotus (Myrmepomis) and Camponotus (Myrmolophus) share the same type-species, synonymy is therefore absolute.]

Genus Myrmolophus references

[Note: world list of species in Camponotus (Myrmolophus): Emery, 1920b: 256.]

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1921a. Professor Emery's subgenera of the genus Camponotus Mayr. Psyche (Cambridge) 28:16-19. 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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