Camponotus lignitus

†Camponotus lignitus; Temporal range: Burdigalian, Early Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Radoboj, Croatia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	†C. lignitus
Binomial name
	†Camponotus lignitus; (Germar, 1837)

Identification

This taxon was described from Radoboj, Croatia (Burdigalian, Early Miocene) and is also known from Oeningen, Switzerland (Messinian, Late Miocene).

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

†lignitus. †Formica lignitum Germar, 1837: pl. 19, fig. 19 (q.) GERMANY (Miocene?).
- Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1867b: 51.
- Status as species: Heer, 1850: 112; Giebel, 1856: 163; Heer, 1867: 7; Mayr, 1867b: 51; Scudder, 1891: 692, 702; Dalla Torre, 1893: 240; Handlirsch, 1907: 868; Bolton, 1995b: 108.

Germar, E. F. 1837. Fauna insectorum Europae. Fasciculus 19. Insectorum protogaeae specimen sistens insecta carbonum fossilium. Halle: Kümmel, pl. 1-25. (pl. 19, fig. 19 queen described)
Heer, O. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Heuschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflüger, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, vi + 264 pp. (page 112, see also)
Mayr, G. 1867b. Vorläufige Studien über die Radoboj-Formiciden, in der Sammlung der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. Jahrb. K-K. Geol. Reichsanst. Wien 17: 47-62 (page 51, Combination in Ca
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).