Camponotus americana

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Camponotus americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. americana
Binomial name
Camponotus americana
(Buckley, 1866)

This taxon is considered to be unidentifiable and its identity is uncertain.

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

United States (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • americana. Formica americana Buckley, 1866: 154 (w.q.) U.S.A. (Connecticut).
    • [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Camponotus americanus Mayr, 1862: 661 (Bolton, 1995b: 85).]
    • Combination in Camponotus: Emery, 1895c: 337; Wheeler, W.M. 1902f: 19.
    • Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 255; Dalla Torre, 1893: 192.
    • Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Camponotus: Bolton, 1995b: 85.
    • [Note: Emery, 1895c: 337, and Wheeler, W.M. 1902f: 19, suspected this name was cognate with marginatus. Emery, 1925b: 117, provisionally synonymised it with minutus. Smith, M.R. 1951a: 845, and Smith, D.R. 1979: 1432, dubiously place it near nearcticus (Bolton, 1995b: 85).]

Description

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 85, catalogue; unrecognisable taxon)
  • Buckley, S. B. 1866. Descriptions of new species of North American Formicidae. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Phila. 6: 152-172 (page 154, worker, queen described)
  • Emery, C. 1895d. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna. (Schluss). Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 257-360 (page 337, combination in Camponotus [unresolved junior secondary homonym of Camponotus americanus Mayr, 1862.])