Camponotus mengei

†Camponotus mengei Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	†C. mengei
Binomial name
†Camponotus mengei Mayr, 1868
Synonyms
Camponotus igneus Mayr, 1868

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene), Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Nomenclature

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

• †mengei. †Camponotus mengei Mayr, 1868b: 27, pl. 1, figs. 1, 8 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • Status as species: Mayr, 1877: 20 (in list); Scudder, 1891: 692; Dalla Torre, 1893: 242; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 867; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 138; Théobald, 1937b: 217; Burnham, 1979: 115; Keilbach, 1982: 280; Bolton, 1995b: 111; Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002: 11; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1030; Perkovsky, 2016: 114.
  • Senior synonym of †igneus: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 138; Théobald, 1937b: 217; Bolton, 1995b: 111; Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002: 11.
• †igneus. †Camponotus igneus Mayr, 1868b: 28, pl. 1, figs. 9, 10 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 692; Dalla Torre, 1893: 235; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Emery, 1905b: 189; Handlirsch, 1907: 867.
  • Junior synonym of †mengei: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 138; Théobald, 1937b: 217; Bolton, 1995b: 104; Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002: 11.

References

• Boudinot, B.E., Borowiec, M.L., Prebus, M.M. 2022. Phylogeny, evolution, and classification of the ant genus Lasius, the tribe Lasiini and the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 47, 113-151 (doi:10.1111/syen.12522).
• Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 27, pl. 1, figs. 1, 8 worker described)
• Perfilieva, K.S. 2022. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from localities of the Russian Far East (Amgu, Velikaya Kema). Paleontological Journal, 56(4), 412–425 (doi:10.1134/s0031030122040086).
• Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
• Radchenko, A.G. 2023. A New Ant Genus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Late Eocene Rovno Amber. Zoodiversity, 57(4), 323–336 (doi:10.15407/zoo2023.04.323).
• Radchenko, A.G., Perkovsky, E.E., Vasilenko, D.V. 2021. Formica species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) in late Eocene Rovno amber. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 82, 237–251 (doi:10.3897/jhr.82.64599).
• Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 138, Senior synonym of igneus)