Camponotus substitutus Emery

Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55 : 49

publication ID

21367

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6239924

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scientific name

Camponotus substitutus Emery
status

 

Camponotus substitutus Emery View in CoL   HNS 1894c.

Camponotus melanoticus var. substitutus Emery   HNS 1894: 3. [w syntypes examined, MCSN; Salinus , S. Beni, Bolivia (Balzan)] .

Camponotus landolti r. substitutus Emery   HNS . Forel 1899c: 136.

Camponotus melanoticus var. multipilis Forel   HNS 1907d: 10. NEW SYNONYMY. [w, m, q syntypes examined, MHNG; Estancia Postillon , Puerto Max a. Rio Paraguay , N. Paraguay (Louis Des Arts jr.)]

Camponotus (Myrmoturba) melanoticus var. multipilis Forel   HNS . Bruch 1914: 229.

Camponotus (Myrmoturba) melanoticus subsp. substitutus Emery   HNS . Bruch 1914: 229.

Camponotus maculatus st. substitutus Emery   HNS . Santschi 1916: 396.

Camponotus fumidus st. substitutus Emery   HNS . Santschi 1922b: 101.

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) substitutus Emery   HNS . Emery 1925: 82.

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) substitutus var. multipilis Forel   HNS . Emery 1925: 83.

Camponotus substitutus   HNS is among the more commonly encountered Camponotus   HNS in open and disturbed habitats, particularly in the chaco and near the Rio Paraguay in eastern Paraguay. This ant can be distinguished from other large Paraguayan Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex)   HNS by the following combination of character states: numerous (>20) suberect to subdecumbent setae on the sides of the head in the major caste; scape of the major simple, not flattened at base; and striking bicoloration in all female castes, with gastric tergites 1-3 (=abd. tergites 3-6) bearing yellowish-white antero-lateral spots contrasting with a dark brown to black central area. Forel’s types of C. substitutus multipilis   HNS are more pilose than most Paraguayan collections of C. substitutus   HNS , but still within the range of variation of the species. As I can find no other characters that distinguish C. multipilis   HNS from C. substitutus   HNS I synonymize it here.

MCSN

Italy, Genova, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria"

MHNG

Switzerland, Geneva, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

SubFamily

Pseudomyrmecinae

Genus

Camponotus

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