Camponotus ellioti relucens

Camponotus ellioti relucens
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Camponotus ellioti)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	Camponotus ellioti relucens Santschi, 1911 Specimen labels

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

Nomenclature

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

• relucens. Camponotus ellioti var. relucens Santschi, 1911e: 133 (in text) (s.w.) MADAGASCAR.
  • Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 207), 1 paralectotype worker (castes not indicated).
  • [Note: Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 207, make it clear that there is 1 major and 1 minor worker, but inadvertently wrote “Lectotype two workers”.]
  • Type-locality: lectotype Madagascar: SE region, Fort Dauphin, 1901 (Ch. Alluaud); paralectotype with same data.
  • Type-depository: NHMB.
  • Combination in C. (Myrmopiromis): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1052.
  • Subspecies of ellioti: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1052; Emery, 1925b: 129; Bolton, 1995b: 120.
  • Junior synonym of ellioti: Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022: 207.

References

• Santschi, F. 1911e. Nouvelles fourmis de Madagascar. Rev. Suisse Zool. 19: 117-134 (page 133, worker described)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922k. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 4 45: 1005-1055 (see also)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922k. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 4 45: 1005-1055 (page 1052, Combination in C. (Myrmopiromis))