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Camponotus americana
| Camponotus americana | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | C. americana |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus americana (Buckley, 1866) | |
This taxon is considered to be unidentifiable and its identity is uncertain.
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on type material
United States (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- americana. Formica americana Buckley, 1866: 154 (w.q.) U.S.A. (Connecticut).
- Type-material: syntype worker(s), syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: U.S.A.: Connecticut (E. Norton).
- Type-depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
- [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Camponotus americanus Mayr, 1862: 661 (Bolton, 1995b: 85).]
- Combination in Camponotus: Emery, 1895c: 337; Wheeler, W.M. 1902f: 19.
- Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 255; Dalla Torre, 1893: 192.
- Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Camponotus: Bolton, 1995b: 85.
- [Notes (i): Emery, 1895c: 337, and Wheeler, W.M. 1902f: 19, suspected this name was cognate with marginatus; (ii) Emery, 1925b: 117, provisionally synonymised it with minutus; (iii) Smith, M.R. 1951a: 845, and Smith, D.R. 1979: 1432, dubiously place it near nearcticus (Bolton, 1995b: 85).]
- Distribution: U.S.A.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 85, catalogue; unrecognisable taxon)
- Buckley, S. B. 1866. Descriptions of new species of North American Formicidae. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Phila. 6: 152-172 (page 154, worker, queen described)
- Emery, C. 1895d. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna. (Schluss). Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 257-360 (page 337, combination in Camponotus [unresolved junior secondary homonym of Camponotus americanus Mayr, 1862.])