Camponotus samius

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus rubripes r. samius Forel, 1889: 262 (s.w.) GREECE.
 * Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 100.
 * Subspecies of maculatus: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 241 (footnote), 251; Emery, 1896d: 370 (in list); Emery, 1905d: 35; Forel, 1906c: 187; Emery, 1908a: 192; Forel, 1911d: 359; Emery, 1914d: 159; Emery, 1915h: 2; Stitz, 1917: 351; Hamann & Klemm, 1976: 677 (anachronism).
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 251; Emery, 1920c: 6, 10 (in key); Emery, 1925b: 100; Finzi, 1930d: 318; Menozzi, 1936d: 300; Aktaç, 1977: 125; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 284 (in key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 219; Collingwood, 1993b: 195; Bolton, 1995b: 122; Radchenko, 1996b: 1200 (in key); Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Petrov, 2006: 109 (in key); Lapeva-Gjonova, et al. 2010: 46; Legakis, 2011: 32; Karaman, C. et al. 2011: 191; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 481; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8; Karaman, C. & Aktaç, 2013: 53 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 41; Lebas, et al. 2016: 154; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2018: 5; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44.
 * Senior synonym of spagnolinii: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 219; Bolton, 1995b: 122; Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8.
 * Material of the unavailable name bosphoricus referred here by Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 219; Bolton, 1995b: 122; Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8.
 * Material of the unavailable name cognatopilicornis referred here by Radchenko, 1997d: 809.
 * spagnolinii. Camponotus samius var. spagnolinii Emery, 1920c: 6.
 * [First available use of Camponotus maculatus subsp. samius var. spagnolinii Emery, 1905d: 36 (w.) TURKEY; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1908a: 192.
 * Subspecies of samius: Emery, 1925b: 100.
 * Junior synonym of samius: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 219; Bolton, 1995b: 124; Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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