Formica carinata

Formica carinata
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Camponotus brullei)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	Formica carinata Brullé, 1840

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Camponotus brullei.

Nomenclature

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

• carinata. Formica carinata Brullé, 1840: 84 (w.m.) SPAIN (Canary Is).
  • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype male(s) (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: Spain: Canary Is (no further data).
  • Type-depository: unknown.
  • [Note: Smith, F. 1858b: 35, cites 1 Canary Is specimen in BMNH, but it is not certain that this worker originated in the type-series.]
  • [Junior primary homonym of Formica carinata Fabricius, 1804: 413 (Smith, F. 1858b: 35).]
  • Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 2.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1908a: 195; Emery, 1920c: 6; Emery, 1925b: 99; Wheeler, W.M. 1927g: 114; Wellenius, 1955: 13; Báez & Ortega, 1978: 189.
  • Junior synonym of maculatus: Roger, 1863b: 2; Mayr, 1865: 27; Emery & Forel, 1879: 448; Forel, 1886f: 143; Forel, 1891b: 24.
  • Junior synonym of thoracicus: Forel, 1905b: 180.
  • Subspecies of cognatus: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 225.
  • Subspecies of maculatus: Emery, 1893c: 85; Emery, 1894i: 46; Emery, 1895h: 46; Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Emery, 1905d: 33.
  • Subspecies of compressus: Santschi, 1939d: 82; Barquin Diez, 1981: 386; Hohmann, et al. 1993: 161.
  • Status as species: Cagniant, 1996b: 99.
  • Replacement name: Formica brullei Smith, F. 1858b: 35.
  • [Note: this valid replacement name, although proposed long ago, appears to have been mostly ignored by later authors (Bolton, 1995b: 91).]