Camponotus (Myrmentoma) piceus (Leach)

Type location France (Formica picea, Leach, 1825: 292, all forms; in Camponotus Roger, 1863b: 1) Nice; no images on Antweb (September 2017) .
Senior synonym of Camponotus foveolata (Formica foveolata m, Mayr, 1853c: 2 ff, all forms) from Hungary, see below; and its synonym ebeninus (Camponotus ebeninus, n. sp. Emery, 1869b: 2, illustrated, worker and male; synonymy by Dalla Torre, 1893: 238) see below) for others see Antweb link.s

Leach's (1825) description is at - . Mayr's (1853c) description of foveolatus is at - . Emery's (1869b) description of ebeninus is at - .

The photomontage of the foveolatus type major is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=0915597.

The photomontage of the ebeninus type minor is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=0915596.