Camponotus sayi californica

Camponotus sayi californica
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Camponotus hyatti)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	Camponotus sayi californica; Emery, 1925

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

Nomenclature

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

californica. Camponotus (Myrmentoma) sayi subsp. californica Emery, 1925b: 118. Replacement name for Camponotus sayi subsp. bicolor Pergande, 1894: 161. [Junior secondary homonym of Formica bicolor Latreille, 1798: 43.] Junior synonym of sayi: Snelling, R.R. 1968b: 355; of hyatti: Snelling, R.R. 1988: 69.

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 90, catalogue)
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 118, replacement name; Camponotus)
Latreille, P. A. 1798. Essai sur l'histoire des fourmis de la France. Brive: F. Bourdeaux, 50 pp. (page 43, junior secondary homonym of Formica bicolor)
Pergande, T. 1894. Formicidae of Lower California, Mexico. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2) 4: 161-165 (page 161, replacement name for Camponotus sayi subsp. bicolor Pergande.)
Snelling, R. R. 1968b. Studies on California ants. 4. Two species of Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 70: 350-358 (page 355, junior synonym of sayi)
Snelling, R. R. 1988. Taxonomic notes on Nearctic species of Camponotus, subgenus Myrmentoma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 55-78 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. (page 69, junior synonym of hyatti)