Camponotus cockerelli

†Camponotus cockerelli Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	†C. cockerelli
Binomial name
†Camponotus cockerelli (Donisthorpe, 1920)

Distribution

This taxon was described from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †cockerelli. †Leucotaphus cockerelli Donisthorpe, 1920: 90, pl. 5, fig. 10 (m.) GREAT BRITAIN (Isle of Wight, Eocene).
  • Combination in Camponotus: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 419.
  • Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 111; Bolton, 1995b: 246; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 419 (redescription).

References

• Dlussky, G.M. & Perfilieva, K.S. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. In: Antropov, A. V., Belokobylskij, S. A., Compton, S. G., Dlussky, G. M., Khalaim, A. I., Kolyada, V. A., Kozlov, M. A., Perfilieva, K. S. & Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104(3-4):335-446.

• Donisthorpe, H. 1920b. British Oligocene ants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(6): 81-94 (page 90, pl. 5, fig. 10 male described)