Camponotus taino Snelling & Torres

Camponotus taino
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Camponotus boriquen)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	Camponotus taino Snelling, R.R. & Torres, 1998 Specimen Labels

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Camponotus boriquen.

Nomenclature

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

• taino. Camponotus taino Snelling, R.R. & Torres, 1998: 8, figs. 13-16 (s.w.q.m.) PUERTO RICO.
  • Type-material: holotype major worker, paratype major and minor workers (numbers not stated, “numerous”).
  • Type-locality: holotype Puerto Rico: El Verde Field Station (Rio Grande), 200 m., 25.vii.1989, RRS #89-28b (R.R. Snelling & J.A. Torres); paratypes: with same data, with same data but 19.ii.1998, #TG-1050 (T. Gush).
  • Type-depositories: LACM (holotype); BMNH, LACM, MCZC, USNM (paratypes).
  • [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus taino Fontenla Rizo, 1997b: 58.]
  • Replacement name: Camponotus (Pseudocolobopsis) boriquen Duarte & Breto, 2024: 327.
  • Combination in C. (Pseudocolobopsis): Snelling & Torres, 1998: 9.
  • Distribution: Puerto Rico.

References

• Duarte, S., Breto, D. 2024. Type catalogue of Hymenoptera (Insecta) housed in the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba. Zootaxa 5523(3), 301–336 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5523.3.1).
• Fontenla Rizo, J. L. 1997c. Nuevas especies de Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Cuba. Avicennia 6/ 7: 54-60 (page 58, fig. worker described)
• Snelling, R. R.; Torres, J. A. 1998. Camponotus ustus Forel and two similar new species from Puerto Rico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contr. Sci. (Los Angel.) 469: 1-10 (page 8, figs. 13-16 soldier, worker, queen, male described)
• Wheeler, W.M. 1908. The ants of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:1 17- 158.