Camponotus gibber
Forel, 1891
valid
Camponotus quadrimaculatus var. gibber
Forel, 1891c:
59 (w.)
MADAGASCAR.
Malagasy.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype minor worker (by designation of Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 83). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: Andrangoloaka (Sikora). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101513 (lectotype).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype minor worker, 1 paralectotype alate queen. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0101528, CASENT0101537. (Source: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 83.)
Type notes:
Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 83, mention a syntype alate queen, now a paralectotype. However, the species was originally described only from the worker caste and no mention is made of a queen. The original locality data given is Imerină (Rév. Père Camboué, M. Sikora).
- Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 83.
- Forel, 1891c: 215 (w.); Forel, 1892o: 232 (q.m.)
- Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosphincta): Forel, 1914a: 273
- Combination in Camponotus (Mayria): Emery, 1925d: 122
- Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosaga): Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 4.
- Status as species: Forel, 1891c: 215; Forel, 1892o: 232; Dalla Torre, 1893: 232; Emery, 1896j: 374 (in list); Wheeler, 1922: 1054; Emery, 1925d: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 101; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 83 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
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. 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. 1892o. Les Formicides. [concl.]. In: Grandidier, A. 1892. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie. Supplèment au 28e fascicule. Paris: Hachette et Cie, pp. 229-280. 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
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.