Camponotus irritans - AntCat

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Camponotus irritans (Smith, 1857) valid

Formica irritans Smith, 1857a: 55, 58 (w.) WEST MALAYSIA, BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: 1 worker Malaysia: Malacca, “MAL 19” (A.R. Wallace), 2 workers Malacca, “34 MALAC” (A.R. Wallace), 1 worker Malaysia: Sarawak, “SAR 1” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depositories: BMNH, OXUM. Type notes: 1) This species is described a second time on p. 58 of the same publication, based on the same material. 2) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 444, cites only 1 minor worker. 3) The single worker labelled “SAR. 1” is probably the one mentioned from “Borneo (Sarawak)" in the original description. I have placed this specimen with the syntypes (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).

Forel, 1913l: 125 (q.); Wheeler, 1924c: 253 (q.m.).
Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 3.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1913l: 125.
Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 93.
Subspecies of Camponotus maculatus: Forel, 1892k: 242; Emery, 1896j: 370 (in list); Mayr, 1897: 432; Forel, 1901c: 27; Dahl, 1901: 17 (in key); Forel, 1909i: 229; Forel, 1911a: 48; Forel, 1911b: 210; Forel, 1912a: 75; Forel, 1912o: 62; Forel, 1913l: 125; Forel, 1915a: 37; Wheeler, 1919f: 108; Wheeler, 1924c: 253; Teranishi, 1940: 60 (first entry).
Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 22; Mayr, 1863a: 416; Roger, 1863b: 3; Smith, 1871a: 304; Mayr, 1879: 646; Forel, 1885b: 176; Emery, 1887a: 217; Dalla Torre, 1893: 236; Emery, 1893g: 196; Bingham, 1903: 353; Forel, 1905f: 26; Wheeler, 1909d: 337; Yano, 1910a: 422; Emery, 1920b: 255; Emery, 1920d: 7, 12 (in key); Santschi, 1924c: 114; Emery, 1925d: 93; Wheeler, 1929h: 57; Karavaiev, 1929e: 236; Stärcke, 1930: 376; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 444; Karavaiev, 1933a: 316; Wheeler, 1935g: 39; Wheeler, 1937a: 24; Teranishi, 1940: 60 (second entry); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 246; Bolton, 1995b: 105; Lin & Wu, 2003: 61; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 73; Terayama, 2009: 216; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 6; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 37; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 68; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 28; McArthur, 2012: 209; Bharti et al., 2016: 24; Dias et al., 2020: 33; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 42; Wang et al., 2022: 42.
Senior synonym of Camponotus agnatus: Bingham, 1903: 353; Emery, 1925d: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 105; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 73.
[Note: Smith, 1857a: 58, and Donisthorpe, 1932c: 444, suggest that Camponotus irritans may be the worker of Camponotus festinus diligens.]

Junior synonyms

Camponotus agnatus Roger, 1863

Obsolete combinations

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. i. carensis Emery, 1920
C. i. cliens Forel, 1911
C. i. croceomaculatus Emery, 1914
C. i. curtus Emery, 1900
C. i. fatuus Forel, 1886
C. i. hongkongensis Forel, 1912
C. i. inferior Emery, 1925
C. i. melanogaster Stitz, 1938
C. i. pallidus (Smith, 1857)
C. i. procax Santschi, 1919
C. i. sumatranus Özdikmen, 2010

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Extant: 11 valid subspecies (2 synonyms, 1 homonym, 3 obsolete combinations)

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