Formica pallens

Formica pallens
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Camponotus nylanderi)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	Formica pallens Nylander, 1849

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Camponotus nylanderi.

Nomenclature

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

• pallens. Formica pallens Nylander, 1849: 36 (w.) ITALY (Sicily).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • [Note: Radchenko, 2007: 38, cites 2w syntypes ZMHF.]
  • Type-locality: Italy: Sicily I., Messina (C. Zeller).
  • Type-depository: ZMHF.
  • [Junior primary homonym of Formica pallens Le Guillou, 1842: 316 (Emery, 1921a: 25).]
  • Forel, 1886f: 149 (s.); Emery, 1908a: 201 (q.).
  • Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 1;
  • combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Emery, 1920b: 255.
  • Junior synonym of aethiops: Mayr, 1855: 313.
  • Junior synonym of marginata: Mayr, 1861: 36 (in key).
  • Junior synonym of sylvaticus: Mayr, 1863: 401; Roger, 1863b: 1; Mayr, 1865: 27; André, 1874: 201 (in list); Forel, 1874: 96 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 448; Nasonov, 1889: 11.
  • Subspecies of rubripes: Forel, 1886f: 143, 149.
  • Subspecies of sylvaticus: Emery, 1887a: 212 (footnote).
  • Subspecies of maculatus: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 241 (footnote), 247; Emery, 1896d: 370 (in list); Emery, 1908a: 201; Emery, 1908d: 24; Emery, 1914d: 159; Emery, 1916b: 225.
  • Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 12; Mayr, 1877: 20 (in list); Dalla Torre, 1893: 246; Emery, 1920b: 255; Emery, 1920c: 7, 12 (in key); Menozzi, 1921: 32.
  • Replacement name: Camponotus nylanderi Emery, 1921a: 25.