Camponotus sayi bicolor

Camponotus sayi bicolor
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Camponotus hyatti)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	Camponotus sayi bicolor Pergande, 1894

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Camponotus hyatti.

Nomenclature

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

• bicolor. Camponotus sayi subsp. bicolor Pergande, 1894: 161 (s.w.q.m.) MEXICO (Baja California).
  • Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated, “many”), 2 syntype queens, 3 syntype males.
  • Type-locality: Mexico: Baja California, Chuparosa, Sierra Laguna (G. Eisen).
  • Type-depository: USNM.
  • [Junior secondary homonym of Formica bicolor Latreille, 1798, 43.]
  • Subspecies of sayi: Emery, 1895c: 337; Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Forel, 1899c: 158.
  • Replacement name: Camponotus (Myrmentoma) sayi subsp. californica Emery, 1925b: 118.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 88, catalogue)
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 118, replacement name: californicus)
• Latreille, P. A. 1798. Essai sur l'histoire des fourmis de la France. Brive: F. Bourdeaux, 50 pp. (junior secondary homonym of Formica bicolor Latreille, 1798.)
• Pergande, T. 1894. Formicidae of Lower California, Mexico. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2) 4: 161-165 (page 161, soldier, worker, queen, male described)