Camponotus herculeanus herculeanoligniperdus

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Camponotus herculeanus herculeanoligniperdus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Camponotus ligniperda)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: Camponotus herculeanus herculeanoligniperdus
Dalla Torre, 1893

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

Nomenclature

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

  • herculeanoligniperdus. Camponotus ligniperdus var. herculeanoligniperdus Dalla Torre, 1893: 235.
    • [First available use of Camponotus herculeanus r. ligniperdus var. herculeanoligniperdus Forel, 1874: 39 (w.q.m.) SWITZERLAND; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
    • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery & Forel, 1879: 447; Forel, 1879a: 59; André, 1882a: 143; Emery, 1896d: 372 (in list); Ruzsky, 1905b: 225 (in text); Emery, 1908a: 185; Forel, 1915d: 69 (in key); Emery, 1916b: 225; Nadig, 1918: 340; Soudek, 1922: 96.
    • Subspecies of herculeanus: Ruzsky, 1896: 68; Nadig, 1918: 340; Menozzi, 1922c: 144; Karavaiev, 1926e: 192; Stärcke, 1926: 119 (in key); Novák & Sadil, 1941: 110 (in key); Holgersen, 1943b: 172 (in key).
    • Subspecies of ligniperda: Menozzi, 1922c: 144; Emery, 1925b: 74.
    • Status as species: Gösswald, 1932: 25; Stitz, 1939: 242.
    • Junior synonym of ligniperdus: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 31; Pisarski, 1961a: 156; Bolton, 1995b: 108; Czechowski, et al. 2012: 233; Radchenko, 2016: 330.

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