Formica testaceipes Smith, F.

Formica testaceipes
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Camponotus terebrans)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	Formica testaceipes Smith, F., 1858

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Camponotus terebrans.

Nomenclature

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

• testaceipes. Formica testaceipes Smith, F. 1858b: 39 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
  • Type-material: holotype minor worker.
  • Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, King George’s Sound (no collector’s name).
  • Type-depository: BMNH.
  • [Junior primary homonym of Formica testaceipes Leach, 1825: 290 (Emery, 1921a: 24).]
  • Mayr, 1862: 662 (q.); Forel, 1902h: 494 (s.m.).
  • Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1862: 662;
  • combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Forel, 1914a: 269;
  • combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 102.
  • Status as species: Mayr, 1862: 662 (redescription); Mayr, 1863: 401; Roger, 1863b: 4; Mayr, 1876: 60 (in key); Emery, 1887a: 211; Dalla Torre, 1893: 254; Emery, 1896d: 372; Forel, 1902h: 494; Forel, 1907h: 301; Wheeler, W.M. 1909a: 29; Forel, 1915b: 100; Emery, 1925b: 102; Wheeler, W.M. 1934d: 159; Brown, 1956a: 39; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 120.
  • Replacement name: Formica terebrans Lowne, 1865a: 278.
  • [Note: terebrans oldest junior synonym of testaceipes Smith, F. (synonymy by Mayr, 1876: 65); hence terebrans first available replacement name (Bolton, 1995b: 126).]