Formica hemipsila

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

Nomenclature

 * hemipsila. Formica hemipsila Foerster, 1850b: 492 (q.) ALGERIA.
 * Status as species: Mayr, 1863: 416; Dalla Torre, 1893: 233.
 * Subspecies of maculatus: Emery, 1891b: 20; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 233, 241 (footnote).
 * Junior synonym of lateralis: Forel, 1894d: 5.

Taxonomic Notes
This taxon was described on the basis of a gyne from Alger/Algeria. Types most certainly do not exist. The description ‘Kopf...Mittelleib roth...nur Mittelbrust und Schildchen ganz schwarz’ may suggest a Camponotus related to the C. lateralis group (Seifert, 2019).