Camponotus cingulatus Mayr

Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55 : 48

publication ID	21367
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6239914
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scientific name	Camponotus cingulatus Mayr
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Camponotus cingulatus Mayr View in CoL HNS 1862.

Camponotus cingulatus Mayr HNS 1862: 661. [syntype q examined, NHMW; Brazil] .

Camponotus lessonai Emery HNS 1894b: 3. NEW SYNONYMY. [w syntypes examined, MCSN; San Pedro, Paraguay (Borelli)] .

Camponotus damocles Forel HNS 1909: 264.

Camponotus (Myrmothrix) cingulatus Mayr HNS . Forel 1914a: 268.

Camponotus (Myrmothrix) lessonai Emery HNS . Emery 1925: 109.

Camponotus (Myrmothrix) cingulatus Mayr HNS . Hashmi 1973: 31.

Camponotus lessonai Emery HNS . Hashmi 1973: 129.

Hashmi (1973) never saw the types of C. lessonai HNS and subsequently excluded C. lessonai HNS from Myrmothrix HNS . I located Emery’s lessonai HNS types from San Pedro at MCSN and they are nearly identical to Forel’s type of C. damocles HNS from San Bernadino (MHNG examined). Workers of these forms are considerably darker than Mayr’s type of C. cingulatus HNS and match several recent collections from eastern Paraguay. I have also encountered light-colored C. cingulatus HNS in San Pedro. Whether the presence of sympatric color morphs indicates mere intraspecific variation or the existence of cryptic species is not clear. However, Hashmi (1973) considered C. damocles HNS a junior synonym of C. cingulatus HNS , and if one adopts Hashmi’s broad concepcion of the species then C. lessonai HNS should also be synonymized.