Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) aethiops (Latreille)
  Type location France
(Formica Aethiops Latreille,
1798: 35, all forms; in Camponotus,
Mayr, 1861: 36; revived as species by Emery (1898c: 125, name only) Brive - no type images on Antweb
(September 2015); note: the
priority name is angustata,
see below, which was published immediately above aethiops - black form.
Junior synonyms
nigrata (Formica nigrata n. sp. Nylander
synonymy Mayr, 1855: 313) Italy,
Messina, Zeller; also Russia
"meridionali", D Motschulski - black form - no type images on Antweb
(September
2015)
angustata (Formica angustata, Latreille 1798:
34, sexuals; synonymy Emery, 1908a: 199) France, Brive - no type images
on Antweb (September 2015)
hyalinipennis (Camponotus marginatus var. hyalinipennis, Costa, 1884: 56,
queen; synonymy Emery, 1914e: 2) Sardinia
- no type images on Antweb (September 2015)
marginata (Formica marginata Latreille 1798:
35, male & queen; synonymy Pisarski, 1975: 31, catalogue not on
HNS) France, Brive; also j.
syn. sylvaticoaethiops,
Forel, 1874: 39, all forms, Switzerland)
- no type images on Antweb (September 2015)
concava (Camponotus rubripes r. C. aethiops Latr. var concavus, Forel, 1889: 263, major
& minor workers; unavailable name; Camponotus aethiops var. concava, Dalla Torre, 1893: 221,
name only, synonymy Agosti &
Collingwood, 1987a: 58, name only) Greece,
Keos & Samos - brown form - on linked
page
sylvaticoides (Camponotus maculatus r. aethiops Latr. var. sylvaticoides, Forel, 1892i: 306,
unavailable name; Camponotus aethiops
var. sylvaticoides, Dalla
Torre, 1893: 221, name only; synonymy Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a:
58, name only) Greece,
Stanimaka - brown form - on linked page
glaber (Camponotus maculatus aethiops
(Latr.) var. glaber nov.
var., Ruzsky, 1905b: 213, Russian [TL 5-6.5 mm]; synonymy Dlussky,
Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 128) Russia
- no type images on Antweb
(September 2015)
Subspecies
cachmiriensis (Camponotus maculatus r. aethiops Latr. var. sylvaticoides, Forel, 1904c: 29,
all forms; unavailable name; Camponotus
aethiops var. sylvaticoides,
Emery, 1925b: 97) India, Sind
Valley, Wroughton; Forel mentions type colour as black - on linked page
escherichi (Camponotus maculatus subsp Oertzeni Forel var. Escherichi Em. var. nov., Emery,
1897f: 239, workers, unavailable name; Camponotus aethiops (Latreille)
var. escherichi, Emery,
Emery, 1925b: 97, name only) Turkey,
Asia brown form - on linked page
Removed since Bolton (1995)
rubicolor
(Ruzsky, 1925b: 42, worker; now under Camponotus
quadrinotatus - placement by Radchenko, 1997c: 704) Russia - no
type images on Antweb (September 2015) - see quadrinotatus at https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0910421,
that has the maculatus form
of light
lateral patches on the gaster - from Japan.
vitiosus (Smith
1874b: 303, worker) now species Radchenko (1997d: 811) Japan - no type images on
Antweb (September 2015).
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 Latreille's
(1798)
description is at -  .
Nylander's
(1849)
description of nigrata is at -  .
Forel's
(1874)
description of sylvatico-aethiops is at -  .
Forel's
(1889)
description of concavus is at -  .
Forel's
(1892i)
description of sylvaticoides is at -  .
Emery's
(1897f)
description of escherichi is at -  .
Forel's
(1904c)
description of cachmiriensis is at -  .
Bondroit's
(1918) illustrated
description of the species as known in France is at -  .
Radchenko's (1997c) key is at -  .
Note: The type form was described as black (hence the
name "aethiops", I suspect) by Latreille and is black in the key of
Mayr
(1861).
Note: In Radchenko's (1977c) key the separation runs to
couplet 63, where C. aethiops
is described as body brown to black, separated from aethiops clara renamed as karawajewi, with its alitrunk
"orange-red" and head and gaster "brownish-red". According to
Antbase, that now falls under Camponotus oertzeni, which, to
me, emphasises the unresolved confusion of varieties. The type oertzeni and all thrre "synoyms"
are from Greek islands and have a brown-yellow alitrunk.
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