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<mods:title>Grappling with homoplasy: taxonomic refinements and reassignments in the ant genera Camponotus and Colobopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:affiliation>Department of Entomology &amp; Nematology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA; P. S. Ward * &amp; Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Institut fuer Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung, Erberstrasse 1, Jena, Thuringia, 07743, Germany; B. E. Boudinot [boudinotb @ gmail. com]</mods:affiliation>
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3.2.1.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Camponotus yogi, full-face dorsal views of head (A, B, D) and lateral view of body (C); scale bars = 0.5 mm. A: Minor worker (CASENT 0249398). B, C: Major worker (CASENT 0249399). D: Dealate queen (CASENT 0923092). Images from AntWeb (www. antweb. org); photographers Will Ericson (A-C), and Wade Lee (D)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.79.e66978.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/533433" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Figs 5</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Plot of scape length (SL) against head width (HW) for workers of Camponotus clarithorax (n = 12) and Camponotus yogi (n = 27). Samples of Camponotus yogi from northern Baja California (BC) fall within the same cluster of points as those from California (CA)." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.79.e66978.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/533434" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">, 6</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">Camponotus yogi</taxonomicName>
Wheeler, 1915: 420. Two syntype workers, Point Loma, California, USA (P. Leonard) (AMNH) [examined via image supplied by Christine Lebeau].
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
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Mackay, in Mackay and Mackay, 2018: 100. Holotype major worker, Tecate, Baja California, Mexico (LACM) [not examined].
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Syn. nov.</emphasis>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Colobopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Colobopsis cavibregma" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cavibregma">Colobopsis cavibregma</taxonomicName>
Mackay, in Mackay and Mackay, 2018: 107. Holotype dealate queen, Skinner Reservoir, Riverside
<taxonomicName family="Formicidae" genus="Co." higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Co." order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" rank="genus">Co.</taxonomicName>
, California, USA (T. Prentice) (LACM) [not examined].
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Syn. nov.</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus (Colobopsis) yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi" subGenus="Colobopsis">Camponotus (Colobopsis) yogi</taxonomicName>
Wheeler; Wheeler, 1917: 562. Placement in
<taxonomicName authority="" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus (Colobopsis)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Colobopsis">Camponotus (Colobopsis)</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus) yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi" subGenus="Myrmaphaenus">Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus) yogi</taxonomicName>
Wheeler; Emery, 1925: 156. Placement in
<taxonomicName authority="" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Myrmaphaenus">Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus)</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus) yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi" subGenus="Myrmaphaenus">Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus) yogi</taxonomicName>
Wheeler; Creighton and Snelling, 1967. Taxonomic and biological notes.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
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(Wheeler); Mackay and Mackay, 2018: 215. Combination in
<taxonomicName authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Colobopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Colobopsis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Colobopsis</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">Camponotus yogi</taxonomicName>
Wheeler; present study. Combination in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Camponotus</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">comb. rev.</emphasis>
, see above).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus apostemata" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="apostemata">Camponotus apostemata</taxonomicName>
(Mackay); present study. Combination in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Camponotus</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">comb. nov.</emphasis>
, see above).
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus cavibregma" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cavibregma">Camponotus cavibregma</taxonomicName>
(Mackay); present study. Combination in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Camponotus</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">comb. nov.</emphasis>
, see above).
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Based on the original description and figures (
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: 111-113), the holotype of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus cavibregma" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cavibregma">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Camponotus cavibregma</emphasis>
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appears to be simply a queen of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Its supposedly distinctive feature-a concave genal area, free of the short spatulate hairs that are common on surrounding anterior regions of the head-is observed also in queens of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Fig.
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). The description and illustrations of the paratype minor worker of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. cavibregma" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cavibregma">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. cavibregma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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: 109-111) similarly place it within the range of variation exhibited by minor workers of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus apostemata" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="apostemata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Camponotus apostemata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, described from a series of workers collected in northern Baja California (specimens from this series examined in LACM), is scarcely distinguishable from
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Camponotus yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and is here treated as part of the geographical variation of the latter species. The head of the major worker is a bit more strongly truncate than in populations farther north, but no consistent differences are seen in the minor workers. Johnson &amp; Ward (2002) referred to these and other samples of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Baja California as
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">Camponotus sp. cf. yogi</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Camponotus yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is closely related to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. clarithorax" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clarithorax">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. clarithorax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Creighton. The major worker of the latter species lacks a pitted, obliquely truncate head, but is otherwise structurally similar. The two species can be distinguished by differences in scape and leg length, with
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
having consistently shorter appendages than
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. clarithorax" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clarithorax">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. clarithorax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Fig.
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), although very small workers may be difficult to distinguish. The median clypeal notch or concavity is better developed, on average, in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. clarithorax" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clarithorax">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. clarithorax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
workers than in those of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a feature which led to the placement of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. clarithorax" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clarithorax">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. clarithorax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the subgenus
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus (Myrmentoma)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Myrmentoma">Camponotus Myrmentoma</taxonomicName>
, but neither species belongs in that subgenus. They are here treated as
<taxonomicName authority="(Camponotus)" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus (Camponotus)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Camponotus">Camponotus (Camponotus)</taxonomicName>
since genetic data indicate a fairly close relationship to other species in that subgenus (
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; Ward, unpublished). In addition to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. clarithorax" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clarithorax">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. clarithorax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, there are two other species in the
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group:
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ca." higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ca. keiferi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="keiferi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ca. keiferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Wheeler, endemic to Isla Guadalupe, Mexico (and already placed in the nominate subgenus), and an undescribed species from the California Channel Islands (Ward, unpublished).
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<caption doi="10.3897/asp.79.e66978.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/533434" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" start="Figure 6" startId="F6">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Figure 6.</emphasis>
Plot of scape length (SL) against head width (HW) for workers of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Creighton" authorityYear="1950" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus clarithorax" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clarithorax">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Camponotus clarithorax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(n = 12) and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Camponotus yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(n = 27). Samples of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Camponotus yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from northern Baja California (BC) fall within the same cluster of points as those from California (CA).
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</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1915" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus yogi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yogi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Camponotus yogi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is endemic to California and northern Baja California, where it occurs in coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodland, and oak-juniper woodland. Nests are located in dead branches or stumps of various plants, always near the ground and often extending into live plant tissue. Creighton &amp; Snelling (1967) reported this species nesting in live beetle-bored stems of
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Asteraceae" genus="Ericameria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Ericameria pinifolia" order="Asterales" pageId="0" pageNumber="37" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pinifolia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="37">Ericameria pinifolia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and tending pseudococcids in the stems.
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