Camponotus dromedarius

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

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Camponotus dromedarius Forel, 1891 valid

Camponotus dromedarius Forel, 1891c: 65, pl. 2, fig. 5 (s.w.m.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype minor worker (by designation of Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2018: 25). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: Imerina and vic. Antananarivo (forêt d’Analamainty) (P. Camboué). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101534 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paralectotype major and minor workers (numbers not stated), 1 paralectotype male. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, MNHN. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0101531, CASENT0101422 (male).

Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2018: 25.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmocamelus): Forel, 1914a: 270.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosaga): Emery, 1920b: 257.
Combination in Camponotus (Mayria): Emery, 1925d: 122; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2018: 25.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmonesites): Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 147.
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 229; Emery, 1896j: 374 (in list); Wheeler, 1922: 1045; Emery, 1925d: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 97; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2018: 25 (redescription).

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
Forel, A. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 22:257-276. PDF
Rakotonirina, J. C.; Fisher, B. L. 2018. Taxonomic revision of the Malagasy Camponotus subgenus Mayria Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using qualitative and quantitative morphology. Zootaxa 4438:1-58. 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.1.1 PDF
Rasoamanana, N.; Fisher, B. L. 2022. A taxonomic revision of the Malagasy endemic subgenus Mayria of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) based on qualitative morphology and quantitative morphometric analyses. ZooKeys 1081:137-231. 10.3897/zookeys.1081.71872 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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