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Camponotus igneus
| †Camponotus igneus Temporal range: Fossil | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | †Camponotus igneus Mayr, 1868 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Eocamponotus mengei.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †igneus. †Camponotus igneus Mayr, 1868b: 28, pl. 1, figs. 9, 10 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 692; Dalla Torre, 1893: 235; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Emery, 1905b: 189; Handlirsch, 1907: 867.
- Junior synonym of †mengei: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 138; Théobald, 1937b: 217; Bolton, 1995b: 104; Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002: 11.
References
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 28, pl. 1, figs. 9, 10 worker described)
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 138, Junior synonym of mengei)