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SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Camponotus
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) aethiops (Latreille)

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) aethiops (Latreille)

return to list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} 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).


Camponotus aethiopsLatreille's (1798) description is at - {original description}. Nylander's (1849) description of nigrata is at - {original description}. Forel's (1874) description of sylvatico-aethiops is at - {original description}. Forel's (1889) description of concavus is at - {original description}. Forel's (1892i) description of sylvaticoides is at - {original description}. Emery's (1897f) description of escherichi is at - {original description}. Forel's (1904c) description of cachmiriensis is at - {original description}. Bondroit's (1918) illustrated description of the species as known in France is at - {original description}. Radchenko's (1997c) key is at - {original description}.

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.


Separation of dark, near black, type forms, and, overall brown concava forms

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