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Camponotus yogi Wheeler, 1915 valid

Camponotus yogi Wheeler, 1915b: 420 (s.w.) U.S.A. (California). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype major worker, 1 syntype minor worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: California, Point Loma nr San Diego, Raja Yogi Institute (P. Leonard). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: 1) Creighton, 1950a: 401, says the types are “apparently lost or misplaced”. 2) Creighton & Snelling, 1967: 187, explain that the types were lost in 1938 when part of W.M. Wheeler’s collection was being transferred from MCZC to AMNH.

Creighton & Snelling, 1967: 191 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b: 650 (l.)
Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Wheeler, 1917a: 562.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus): Emery, 1925d: 156.
Combination in Colobopsis: Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 215.
Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 45.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1917a: 562; Emery, 1925d: 156; Creighton, 1950a: 401; Smith, 1951c: 847; Creighton & Snelling, 1967: 187; Smith, 1979: 1434; Bolton, 1995b: 130; Ward, 2005: 63; McArthur, 2012: 160; Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 215 (redescription); Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 44.
Senior synonym of Camponotus apostemata: Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 45.
Senior synonym of Camponotus cavibregma: Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 45.

Junior synonyms

Camponotus apostemata (Mackay, 2018)
Obsolete combination(s): Colobopsis apostemata
Camponotus cavibregma (Mackay, 2018)
Obsolete combination(s): Colobopsis cavibregma

Obsolete combinations

Colobopsis yogi

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Creighton, W. S.; Snelling, R. R. 1967 ("1966"). The rediscovery of Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus) yogi Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 73:187-195. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Mackay, W. P.; MacKay, E. E. 2018. Revision of the New World cork-headed ants of the genus Colobopsis. Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 279 pp. PDF
McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Boudinot, B. E. 2021. Grappling with homoplasy: taxonomic refinements and reassignments in the ant genera Camponotus and Colobopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 79:37-56. 10.3897/asp.79.e66978 PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1970b. Ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae: second supplement. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 63:648-656. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1915b. Some additions to the North American ant-fauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34:389-421. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. PDF

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