Camponotus dufouri

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Camponotus dufouri Forel, 1891 valid

Camponotus dufouri Forel, 1891c: 16, pl. 1, fig. 2a-d (s.w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 77). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: 30 miles NW Tamatave (O’Swald). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101644 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype major worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0101669. (Source: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 77.) Type notes: 1) Other original syntype localities: Madagascar: Tamatavé (Perrot), Madagascar: Forêt d’Alahakato (Perrot). 2) Type locality earlier restricted to Tamatavé (Perrot), by Wheeler, 1922: 1043. 3) Original description mentions Hamburg Museum as depository, these specimens were probably destroyed in World War II.

Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 77.
Forel, 1895d: 244 (q.); Forel, 1895i: 488 (m.)
Combination in Camponotus (Dinomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 268.
Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 85.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosaga): Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 77.
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 229; Forel, 1895d: 244; Emery, 1895g: 337; Emery, 1896j: 370 (in list); Wasmann, 1897a: 250; Forel, 1907i: 91; Wheeler, 1922: 1043; Emery, 1925d: 85; Bolton, 1995b: 97; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 77 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Camponotus dufouri imerinensis: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 77.

Junior synonyms

Camponotus dufouri imerinensis Forel, 1891

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. 1895g. Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire de Diego-Suarez (Madagascar-nord) (Avril-août 1893). Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:336-345. 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. 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. 1895d. Nouvelles fourmis de l'Imerina oriental (Moramanga etc.). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:243-251. PDF
Forel, A. 1895i. Quelques fourmis du centre de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:485-488. PDF
Forel, A. 1907i. Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Reise in Ostafrika 2:75-92. 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. 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
Wasmann, E. 1897a. Bemerkungen über einige Ameisen von Madagascar. Zoologischer Anzeiger 20:249-250. 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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