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Camponotus CA-02 Name

Started By AntsCali098 , Mar 11 2023 10:42 PM

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#1 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted March 11 2023 - 10:42 PM

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Why hasn't this species been described as a normal species name yet? It's been a while so they were found, seems odd to me.

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#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted March 12 2023 - 8:07 AM

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Apparently there’s currently a paper in the works

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#3 Offline dspdrew - Posted March 12 2023 - 10:07 AM

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The entire subgenus needs to be updated.

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#4 Offline ReignofRage - Posted March 12 2023 - 4:01 PM

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Species can and have gone decades without being described. It only happens when someone wants to fork the bill of collecting of specimens, analyzing lots of specimens, writing a paper, and then the very expensive publishing. To my knowledge it was assumed that a journal from Mexico was being published that would describe it, but years went by without anything - however this was word-of-mouth. Currently Dr. Ward is working on it along with many other Camponotus.