Camponotus taino Fontenla, 1997

Duarte, Sandra & Breto, Dayron, 2024, Type catalogue of Hymenoptera (Insecta) housed in the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba, Zootaxa 5523 (3), pp. 301-336 : 327

Camponotus taino Fontenla

( Figs. 50–52 )

Camponotus taino Fontenla, 1997 : Avicennia 6/7: 55–60 [58] *

Type material examined: Holotype 1 worker ( 26.540 ), Cuba, Pinar del Río, Santo Tomás, Sierra de Quemados , 1991-11-02, leg. J. L. Fontenla.

Original label data: S. Quemados / Sto. Tomás / P. del Río [handwritten] // 2-11-91 / J. L. Fontenla [handwritten] // Typus [circle red label, handwritten] // 26.540 [printed].

Paratypes 4 workers ( 18.6738 – 18.6741 ), same information of the holotype, 1993-i-19, leg. A. Pérez ; 1 worker ( 18.6742 ), Cuba, Pinar del Río, Sierra de Mesa , 1994-iii, leg. A. Pérez ; 1 worker ( 18.6743 ), Viñales , San Vicente, 1972-iii, leg. Broche.

Remarks: The type locality is indicated as Mogote Dos Hermanas, Viñales ( Fontenla, 1997).

There is another species with the same name described for Puerto Rico: Camponotus taino Snelling & Torres, 1998 is an unresolved junior primary homonym of Camponotus taino Fontenla, 1997 (www.antweb.org).

Figures

FIGURES 50–52. Camponotus taino Fontenla (26.540). Holotype worker. 50) Head in frontal view. 51) Lateral view. 52) Labels.