Colobopsis dentata

Colobopsis dentata Mayr, 1866 valid

Colobopsis dentata Mayr, 1866a: 492, fig. 5 (w.) FIJI (Ovalau). Oceania.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Fiji Is: Ovalau I. (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MCZC (probably also NHMW). Type notes: 1) Original description merely says “workers”. 2) Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 53, cite 2 major worker, 4 minor worker, 1 queen, 2 male syntypes in MCZC (queens and males are not mentioned in the original description).

Mann, 1921: 491 (s.q.m.)
Combination in Camponotus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 228.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1914a: 271.
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmotemnus): Emery, 1920b: 258.
Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Mann, 1921: 491.
Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
Status as species: Mayr, 1870b: 941 (in key); Mayr, 1876: 67; Dalla Torre, 1893: 228; Emery, 1896j: 374 (in list); Mann, 1921: 491; Emery, 1925d: 148; Mann, 1925b: 6; Wheeler, 1934e: 416; Wheeler, 1935g: 42; Dlussky, 1994a: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 96; McArthur, 2012: 14; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 53.

Obsolete combinations

Camponotus dentatus

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
Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
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. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 8:229-260. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 22:257-276. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1925b. Ants collected by the University of Iowa Fiji-New Zealand Expedition. Studies in Natural History. Iowa University 11(4):5-6. PDF
Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53:484-517. PDF
Mayr, G. 1870b. Neue Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20:939-996. PDF
Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. PDF
McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1934e. Some aberrant species of Camponotus (Colobopsis) from the Fiji Islands. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 27:415-424. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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