Camponotus spenceri
Camponotus spenceri | |
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Scientific classification (junior synonym of Camponotus fieldeae) | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Camponotus |
Species: | Camponotus spenceri Clark, 1930 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Camponotus fieldeae.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- reticulatus. Camponotus reticulatus Kirby, W.F. 1896: 204 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory).
- [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus reticulatus Roger, 1863a: 139.]
- Replacement name: Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) spenceri Clark, 1930c: 18.
- spenceri. Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) spenceri Clark, 1930c: 18.
- [Misspelled as spenseri by McArthur, 2007a: 296.]
- Replacement name for Camponotus reticulatus Kirby, W.F. 1896: 204. [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus reticulatus Roger, 1863a: 139.]
- Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 119; Taylor, 1987a: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 124; McArthur, 2007a: 329; McArthur, 2010: 100; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 38 (error); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 30 (error); McArthur, 2014: 94.
- Junior synonym of fieldeae: Heterick, 2021: 18.
- [Note: Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 38, and Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 30, include spenceri Clark in error as a species of Borneo and China, respectively; spenceri is the replacement name for reticulatus Kirby, W.F. 1896 (Australia), not for reticulatus Roger, 1863a (Oriental region).]
References
- Clark, J. 1930c. New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species. Proc. R. Soc. Vic. (n.s.) 43: 2-25 (page 18, replacement name for reticulatus Kirby, W.F. 1896)
- Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
- Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
- McArthur, A. J. and R. Leys. 2006. A morphological and molecular study of some species in the Camponotus maculatus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia and Africa, with a description of a new Australian species. Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 8:99-110.
- Roger, J. 1863a. Die neu aufgeführten Gattungen und Arten meines Formiciden-Verzeichnisses nebst Ergänzung einiger früher gegebenen Beschreibungen. Berl. Entomol. Z. 7: 131-214 (page 139, junior primary homonym of reticulatus Roger, 1863)