Camponotus quadrimaculatus
Forel, 1886
valid
Camponotus quadrimaculatus
Forel, 1886c:
cii (s.w.)
MADAGASCAR.
Malagasy.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype minor worker (by designation of Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: Fianarantsoa (Besson). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0102426 (lectotype).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype minor worker, 2 paralectotype major workers, 1 paralectotype alate queen, 2 paralectotype males. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, ZMHB. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0102443, CASENT0102427, CASENT0102442, CASENT0102424 (queen), CASENT0102425, CASENT0104625 (male).
Type notes:
Forel lists only minor and major workers in his description. Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140 list a paralectotype queen and paralectotype males.
- Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140.
- [Camponotus quadrimaculatus Forel, 1879a: 115. Nomen nudum.]
- [Misspelled as 4 maculatus by Forel, 1907i: 91.]
- Forel, 1891c: 58 (s.q.m.)
- Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosaga): Forel, 1912j: 92.
- Combination in Camponotus (Mayria): Emery, 1925d: 123.
- Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosaga): Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 4.
- Status as species: Forel, 1891c: 58 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 249; Emery, 1896j: 374 (in list); Forel, 1907i: 91; Wheeler, 1922: 1046; Emery, 1925d: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 119; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140 (redescription).
- Senior synonym of Camponotus kelleri invalidus: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 141.
- Senior synonym of Camponotus kelleri: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 141.
- Senior synonym of Camponotus quadrimaculatus sellaris: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140.
Junior synonyms
- Camponotus kelleri Forel, 1886
- Camponotus kelleri invalidus Forel, 1897
- Camponotus quadrimaculatus sellaris Emery, 1895
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. 1879a. Études myrmécologiques en 1879 (deuxième partie [1re partie en 1878]). Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 16:53-128. PDF
- Forel, A. 1886c. Diagnoses provisoires de quelques espèces nouvelles de fourmis de Madagascar, récoltées par M. Grandidier. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:ci-cvii. 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. 1907i. Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Reise in Ostafrika 2:75-92. PDF
- Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:59-92. 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.