Camponotus rubripes

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Kenya, Sierra Leone.

Nomenclature

 * . Formica rubripes Latreille, 1802c: 112 (w.) SIERRA LEONE.
 * Combination in Camponotus: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 222.
 * Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 104.
 * Subspecies of maculatus: Forel, 1891b: 23.
 * Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 32; Mayr, 1863: 401; Emery, 1891b: 17; Emery, 1896d: 370, 377 (in list); Emery, 1925b: 104; Bolton, 1995b: 121; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 205.
 * Material of the unavailable name barbarus Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893, referred here.
 * [Note: rubripes was the name applied by Latreille to the ant earlier misidentified as Formica barbara Linnaeus, by Drury, 1773: 72. Latreille, 1802c: 112, stresses that, “La fourmi de Barbarie de Linnée........est très différente”. See entry ‘Formica rubripes Drury, 1770’, sensu Forel, 1886f: 143.]

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Forel A. 1886. Études myrmécologiques en 1886.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 30: 131-215.
 * Garcia F.H., Wiesel E. and Fischer G. 2013.The Ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)Faunal Overview, First Species Checklist, Bibliography, Accounts for All Genera, and Discussion on Taxonomy and Zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History, 101(2): 127-222