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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Formicinae » Camponotini » Colobopsis » Colobopsis hunteri

Species Colobopsis hunteri

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)
Family Formicidae (Ants)
Subfamily Formicinae
Tribe Camponotini
Genus Colobopsis
Species hunteri (Colobopsis hunteri)
Other Common Names
Hunter's Carpenter Ant
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orig. Comb: Camponotus (Colobopsis) pylartes var. hunteri Wheeler, W.M. 1910
Raised to full species by Creighton (1950)
Explanation of Names
Patronym for entomologist Walter David Hunter (1875-1925) who worked on the Boll Weevil in Victoria, Texas from 1901-1905 (1) and almost surely collected the type series.
Range
Apparently known primarily from its type locality near the Texas coast north of Corpus Christi.
Remarks
Type Locality: Victoria, TX
Print References
Creighton, W.S. 1950. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University 104: 1-585.
Wheeler, W.M. 1910. The North American ants of the genus Camponotus Mayr. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20: 295-354.
Internet References
AntWeb
Bibliographic Atlas of the Ant Species of the World - Michael D. Weiser, 2009
Type - MCZC, Harvard
Works Cited
1.American Entomologists
Arnold Mallis. 1971. Rutgers University Press.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 19 April, 2011 - 10:21am
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban
Last updated 13 August, 2016 - 9:29am

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