Camponotus brevis - AntCat

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Camponotus brevis Forel, 1899 valid

Camponotus brevis Forel, 1899i: 140, pl. 4, fig. 20 (s.w.q.m.) PANAMA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Panama: Tolé (Champion) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 50; no lectotype designated), Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, nr San Antonio, 17.ii.-17.iii.1896 (A. Forel). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: Forel’s Neotropical itinerary is outlined in Forel, 1902b: 170.

[Camponotus brevis Emery, 1896a: 1 (in list). Nomen nudum (attributed to Forel).]
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmobrachys): Forel, 1914a: 270.
Status as species: Forel, 1899j: 274; Forel, 1902b: 171; Emery, 1925d: 163; Wheeler, 1942: 257; Kempf, 1972b: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 89; Mackay & MacKay, 2019: 754.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. b. obscurifrons Santschi, 1936
C. b. pauli Forel, 1908

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1896a. Formiche raccolte dal dott. E. Festa nei pressi del golfo di Darien. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 11(229):1-4. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1899i. Formicidae. [concl.]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:137-160. PDF
Forel, A. 1899j. Von Ihrer Königl. Hoheit der Prinzessin Therese von Bayern auf einer Reise in Südamerika gesammelte Insekten. I. Hymenopteren. a. Fourmis. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 44:273-277.
Forel, A. 1902b. Quatre notices myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46:170-182. 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
Mackay, W. P.; MacKay, E. E. 2019. Género Camponotus. Capítulo 26. Pp. 743-789 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

Extant: 2 valid subspecies

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