Camponotus laconicus

Identification
A member of the Camponotus samius species complex (Tanaemyrmex).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus (Myrmoturba) samius var. laconicus Emery, 1920c: 6.
 * [First available use of Camponotus maculatus subsp. samius var. laconica Emery, 1908a: 192 (s.w.) GREECE; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 100.
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1911d: 359.
 * Junior synonym of festai: Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 138 (error).
 * Subspecies of samius: Emery, 1925b: 100.
 * Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 58; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 284 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 107; Petrov, 2006: 109 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 31; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 477; Borowiec, L. 2014: 35; Lebas, et al. 2016: 154; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Agosti, D. and C.A. Collingwood. 1987. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 60: 51-62
 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2012. Ants of Greece - Checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 23(4): 461-563.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2017. Ants of the Peloponnese, Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Polish Journal of Entomology 86: 193-236.
 * Forel A. 1911. Fourmis nouvelles ou intéressantes. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 47: 331-400.
 * Legakis Collection Database
 * Salata S., and L Borowiec. 2017. Species of Tetramorium semilaeve complex from Balkans and western Turkey, with description of two new species of (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 62:279–313.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2019. Preliminary division of not socially parasitic Greek Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with a description of three new species. ZooKeys 877: 81-131.