Dolophra

Dolophra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Dolophra Wu, J. & Wang, C., 1994
Type species
Dolophra politae, now Camponotus politae

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

Nomenclature

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

• DOLOPHRA [junior synonym of Camponotus]
  • Dolophra Wu, J. & Wang, 1994: 35. Type-species: Dolophra politae, by original designation.
  • Dolophra junior synonym of Camponotus: Bolton, 1995b: 27.
  • Dolophra junior synonym of Camponotus (Colobopsis): Bolton, 2003: 113, 268.
  • Dolophra junior synonym of Camponotus: Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 44.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 27, Dolophra as junior synonym of Camponotus)
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 113, 268, Dolophra as junior synonym of Colobopsis)
• Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).
• Ward, P.S., Boudinot, B.E. 2021. Grappling with homoplasy: taxonomic refinements and reassignments in the ant genera Camponotus and Colobopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 79, 37–56 (doi:10.3897/asp.79.e66978).

• Wu, J.; Wang, C. 1994. A new genus of ants from Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). J. Beijing For. Univ. (Engl. Ed.) 3(1 1: 35-38 (page 35, Dolophra as genus)
• Wu, J., Wang, C. 1995. The ants of China. Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House, x + 214 pp. (page 158, Dolophra as genus)