Camponotus compressus cosensis

Camponotus compressus cosensis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Camponotus sanctus)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	Camponotus compressus cosensis; Finzi, 1939

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

Nomenclature

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

cosensis. Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) compressus var. cosensis Finzi, 1939c: 159 (s.w.) GREECE. [First available use of Camponotus maculatus r. sanctus var. cosensis Forel, 1904c: 20; unavailable name (Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 61).] Finzi, 1932: 25 (q.m.). Junior synonym of sanctus: Borowiec & Salata, 2013: 382.

Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 60: 51-62 (page 61, First available use of Camponotus maculatus r. sanctus var. cosensis; unavailable name.)
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)
Borowiec, L. & Salata, S. 2013. Ants of Greece – additions and corrections (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 24, 335-401.

Finzi, B. 1932a. Sopra alcune formiche dell'Isola di Rodi. Boll. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 64: 24-27 (page 25, queen, male described)
Finzi, B. 1939c. Ergebnisse der von Franz Werner und Otto v. Wettstein auf den Ägäischen Inseln unternommenen Sammelreisen. Ameisen. Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. Abt. I 148: 153-161 (page 159, soldier, worker described)
Forel, A. 1904d. Miscellanea myrmécologiques. Rev. Suisse Zool. 12: 1-52 (page 20, First available use of Camponotus maculatus r. sanctus var. cosensis; unavailable name.)