Camponotus prostans

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Camponotus prostans Forel, 1910 valid

Camponotus nigriceps subsp. prostans Forel, 1910b: 72 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: Western Australia, Stat. 99, Lion Mill, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 129, Jarrahdale, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 138, Lununberg, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 154, Pickering Brook, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 162, Torbay, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 164, NE Albany, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: McArthur & Adams, 1996: 40, cite “1 major worker, 1 minor worker, many cotypes” in MHNG.

[First available use of Camponotus nigriceps obniger prostans Forel, 1907j; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Taylor, 1986: 34).]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Crawley, 1922a: 428.
Subspecies of Camponotus nigriceps: Emery, 1925d: 103.
Junior synonym of Camponotus lividipes: Wheeler, 1933b: 23; Clark, 1934c: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 118.
Status as species: Taylor, 1987a: 14; McArthur & Adams, 1996: 40; McArthur, 2007b: 308; Heterick, 2009: 63; McArthur, 2014: 94.

Obsolete combinations

Camponotus nigriceps prostans

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1934c. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:48-73. PDF
Crawley, W. C. 1922a. New ants from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)9:427-448. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
McArthur, A. J. 2007b. A key to Camponotus Mayr of Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:290-351. PDF
McArthur, A. J. 2014. A guide to Camponotus ants of Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 185 pp.
McArthur, A. J.; Adams, M. 1996. A morphological and molecular revision of the Camponotus nigriceps group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10:1-46. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1986. The quadrinominal infrasubspecific names of Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). General and Applied Entomology 18:33-37. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1933b. Mermis parasitism in some Australian and Mexican ants. Psyche (Cambridge) 40:20-31. PDF

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