Camponotus foveolata (Mayr 1853)

This taxon has been described by Mayr as Formica foveolata from Blocksberg near Ofen in Hungary, from Imola in Italy and from Rauhkogel near Mödling in Austria. Herewith, a lectotype is designated in a worker labeled ‘Imola G.Mayr’, ‘z. G.Mayr.Bd.III. p.101-277’, ‘ Form. foveolata det. G.Mayr’,‘Type’ and ‘ Lectotype Formica foveolata Mayr, 1853 des. B.Seifert 2012’. One paralectotype male is labeled ‘Imola G. Mayr’, ‘z. G. Mayr. Bd.III. p.101-277’, ‘ Form. foveolata det. G. Mayr’ and ‘ Paralectotype Formica foveolata Mayr, 1853 des. B.Seifert 2012’. Both specimens are stored in NHM Wien. The lectotype worker is allocated to the C. piceus cluster with p = 0.9992 if run as wild-card in a 5-class LDA considering the five black species of the group.