Camponotus babau

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Camponotus babau
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Camponotus shaqualavensis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: Camponotus babau
Bolton, 1995

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Camponotus shaqualavensis.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • babau. Camponotus babau Bolton, 1995b: 87. Replacement name for arnoldi Pisarski, 1971a: 671. [Junior primary homonym of arnoldi Forel, 1912a: 75.] Junior synonym of shaqualavensis: Radchenko, 1997d: 810.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 87, new name, catalogue)
  • Forel, A. 1912b. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Formicidae (Hym.) (Schluss). Entomol. Mitt. 1: 67-81 (page 75, junior primary homonym of arnoldi Forel.)
  • Pisarski, B. 1971a. Nouvelles espèces de fourmis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) du sous-genre Tanaemyrmex Ashm. d'Iraq. Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci. Sér. Biol. 19: 671-675 (page 671, replaced name arnoldi Pisarski, 1971.)
  • Radchenko, A. G. 1997d. Review of ants of the subgenera Tanaemyrmex, Colobopsis, Myrmamblis, Myrmosericus, Orthonotomyrmex and Paramyrmamblis of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Asian Palearctic. Zool. Zh. 76: 806-815 (page 810, Junior synonym of shaqualavensis)