Camponotus maculatus pallidus

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

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Camponotus maculatus pallidus (Smith, 1857) an obsolete combination of Camponotus irritans pallidus (Smith, 1857)

Formica pallida Smith, 1857a: 57 (s.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Malaysia: Borneo, Sarawak (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: 1) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, failed to find any material of this taxon in OXUM. 2) The original description implies the existence of several syntypes. 3) Earlier Bingham, 1903: 358, and Donisthorpe, 1932c: 445, had said that the “type” was in BMNH.

Infrasubspecies

C. m. p. samoaensis Santschi, 1919

Citations

Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Smith, F. 1857a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2:42-88. PDF

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