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Camponotus quercicola
| Camponotus quercicola | |
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| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Camponotus laevigatus) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Subgenus: | Camponotus |
| Species complex: | herculeanus |
| Species: | Camponotus quercicola Smith, M.R., 1954
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This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Camponotus laevigatus.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- quercicola. Camponotus (Camponotus) quercicola Smith, M.R. 1954b: 211 (w.) U.S.A. (California).
- Gadau, et al. 1999: 516 (q.m.)
- Status as species: Smith, M.R. 1958c: 143; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1427; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1986g: 60 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 119; Gadau, et al. 1999: 514 (redescription); Ward, 2005: 63; Mackay, 2019: 320 (redescription).
- Junior synonym of laevigatus: Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 46.
References
- Alatorre-Bracamontes, C.E., Vásquez-Bolaños, M. 2010. Lista comentada de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) del norte de México. Dugesiana 17(1): 9-36.
- Brady, S. G.; Gadau, J.; Ward, P. S. 1999. Is the ant genus Camponotus paraphyletic? [Abstract.] Pp. 27-28 in: 4th International Hymenopterists Conference, 6-11th January 1999, Canberra, Australia. Program and abstracts. Glen Osmond, South Australia: 4t (see also)
- Gadau, J.; Brady, S.G.; Ward, P.S. 1999. Systematics, distribution, and ecology of an endemic California Camponotus quercicola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 92(4): 514-522. (page 516, 517, queen, male described)
- Mackay, W.P. 2019. New World Carpenter Ants of the Hyperdiverse genus Camponotus. Volume 1. Introduction, keys to the subgenera and species complexes and the subgenus Camponotus: 412 pp. Lambert Academic Publishing.
- Smith, M. R. 1954b [1953]. A new Camponotus in California apparently inhabiting live oak, Quercus sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 61: 211-214.(page 211, worker described)
- 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 & Phylogeny 79, 37–56 (doi:10.3897/asp.79.e66978).