Camponotus importunus

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

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Camponotus importunus Forel, 1911 valid

Camponotus maculatus subsp. importunus Forel, 1911g: 288 (s.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: South Africa: Cape Prov. (Krebs) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 955; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Cape Prov., Matjesfontein (no collector’s name), Cape Prov., Port Elizabeth (H. Brauns), Mozambique: Lobombo Borges (F. Wilms). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimens: CASENT0910058, CASENT0910059.

[First available use of Camponotus maculatus sexpunctatus importunus Forel, 1910e; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmoturba): Emery, 1920d: 5.
Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 87.
Subspecies of Camponotus maculatus: Emery, 1920d: 5; Arnold, 1922: 635; Wheeler, 1922: 955; Emery, 1925d: 87.
Status as species: Baroni Urbani, 1972: 131; Bolton, 1995b: 104.

Obsolete combinations

Camponotus maculatus importunus

Citations

Arnold, G. 1922. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part V. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:579-674. PDF
Baroni Urbani, C. 1972. Studi sui Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 82:122-135. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1920d. Studi sui Camponotus. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 52:3-48. 10.5281/zenodo.25547 PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303. 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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