Camponotus pylartes

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Camponotus pylartes
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Colobopsis impressa)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Colobopsis
Species: Camponotus pylartes
Wheeler, W.M., 1904

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Specimen labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • pylartes. Camponotus (Colobopsis) pylartes Wheeler, W.M. 1904b: 147, fig. 4 (s.w.q.) U.S.A.
    • Petralia & Vinson, 1980: 386 (l.).
    • Combination in Colobopsis: Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 350.
    • Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1910d: 353; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 572; Wheeler, W.M. 1917a: 562; Emery, 1925b: 147; Smith, M.R. 1930a: 6; Wheeler, W.M. 1932a: 16; Creighton, 1950a: 394; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 846; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1434; Bolton, 1995b: 119; Deyrup, 2003: 44; McArthur, 2012: 156.
    • Junior synonym of impressa: Deyrup, 2017: 192 (in text); Mackay & Mackay, 2018: 144.

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