Camponotus fuscipennis
†Camponotus fuscipennis Temporal range: Late Eocene Florissant, Colorado, United States | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Camponotus |
Species: | †C. fuscipennis |
Binomial name | |
†Camponotus fuscipennis Carpenter, 1930 | |
Synonyms | |
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Florissant, Colorado, United States (Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †fuscipennis. †Camponotus fuscipennis Carpenter, 1930: 59, pl. 5, fig. 4; pl. 11, fig. 6 (q.) U.S.A. (Oligocene).
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 101.
- Senior synonym of †carpenteri: new synonymy, unpublished.
- [Note: †Camponotus carpenteri Özdikmen, 2010a: 525, is an unnecessary replacement name; hence an automatic junior synonym of †fuscipennis.]
- †carpenteri. †Camponotus carpenteri Özdikmen, 2010a: 525.
- Unnecessary replacement name for †Camponotus fuscipennis Carpenter, 1930: 59; hence junior synonym of †fuscipennis: new synonymy, unpublished.
- [Note: †fuscipennis Carpenter is not a junior homonym; hence †carpenteri is automatically a junior synonym of †fuscipennis).]
Description
References
- Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66. (page 59, pl. 5, fig. 4; pl. 11, fig. 6 queen described [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of fuscipennis Wheeler])
- Dlussky, G. M. 1997b. Genera of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Baltic amber. Paleontol. Zh. 31: 616-627 (page 624, Combination in Camponotus)
- 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).
- Theobald, N. 1937a. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Nancy: G. Thomas, 473 pp. (page 216, worker, male described)
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 136, fig. 56 queen described)