Camponotus foraminosus mendax

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Camponotus foraminosus mendax
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Camponotus grandidieri eumendax)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: Camponotus foraminosus mendax
Emery, 1895

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Camponotus grandidieri eumendax.

Nomenclature

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

  • mendax. Camponotus foraminosus subsp. mendax Emery, 1895h: 54 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. [Date of publication 16.viii.1895.] Forel, 1910f: 30 (q.). Combination in C. (Myrmotrema): Santschi, 1915c: 274. Subspecies of grandidieri: Santschi, 1915c: 274; Stitz, 1923: 165. Unresolved junior primary homonym of mendax Forel, above: Bolton, 1995b: 111. Replacement name: eumendax Özdikmen, 2010a: 526.

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