Camponotus olivieri - AntCat

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Camponotus olivieri Forel, 1886 valid

Camponotus foraminosus r. olivieri Forel, 1886h: 175 (s.w.q.) ANGOLA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type localities: workers Angola: Malangé (M. Buchner) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 982; no lectotype designated), 1 queen Ghana: Accra (no collector’s name). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MNHU. Primary type specimens: CASENT0910482, CASENT0910483.

Combination in Camponotus (Myrmotrema): Santschi, 1915c: 269.
Subspecies of Camponotus foraminosus: Emery, 1893m: 231 (footnote); Mayr, 1895: 150; Emery, 1895i: 54; Emery, 1896j: 376 (in list); Santschi, 1910c: 393; Forel, 1913i: 356.
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 246; Santschi, 1915c: 270 (in key); Wheeler, 1922: 252, 982; Emery, 1925d: 132; Bolton, 1995b: 115.

Obsolete combinations

Camponotus foraminosus olivieri

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. o. concordius Santschi, 1915
C. o. delagoensis Forel, 1894
C. o. infelix Santschi, 1915
C. o. lemma Forel, 1886
C. o. moshianus Santschi, 1915
C. o. osiris Forel, 1911
C. o. patersoni Arnold, 1959
C. o. pax Menozzi, 1942
C. o. sorptus Santschi, 1915
C. o. tenuipilis Santschi, 1915
C. o. zaireicus Özdikmen, 2010

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. 1893m. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in various genera attributed to Emery.]. Pp. 4-266 in: Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. 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. 1886h. Études myrmécologiques en 1886. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:131-215. PDF
Forel, A. 1913i. Quelques fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:347-359. PDF
Mayr, G. 1895. Afrikanische Formiciden. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 10:124-154. PDF
Santschi, F. 1910c ("1909"). Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus du Congo français. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 78:349-400. PDF
Santschi, F. 1915c. Nouvelles fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 84:244-282. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 11 valid subspecies

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