European wood ant [1] [2] ( lat. Camponotus ligniperda ) is a species of large-sized ants of the genus Camponotus ( Camponotus ) from the subfamily Formicinae .
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Description
Breast is red-brown. The front edge of the clypeus without cutting. Working ants are small to large, have a length of 6-14, females - 15-18, males - 9-12 mm. Nest in the wood. [3]
Its name, sometimes proposed, is the Red-bellied wood-ant [4] and is not used anywhere and does not correspond to reality, since it can only have the base of the first abdominal tergite in red (from yellowish-red to brown), while the rest of it is black. Therefore, it is often confused with a close view - the Red - breasted wood-ant ( Camponotus herculeanus ). [five]
Distribution
It is found in the forests of mainland Central Europe , the Caucasus and Asia Minor. Not available in the UK, Ireland and some islands. [6] [7] [5]
Guard Status
It is included in the Appendix to the Red Book of Moscow as a species that needs constant monitoring and observation on the territory of the capital. [one]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 RESOLUTION of the Moscow Government dated November 18, 2008 No. 1047-PP (as amended on August 25, 2009) “On Amending the Resolution of the Moscow Government dated July 10, 2001 No. 634-PP” (together with the “List of objects of animal and vegetable world, excluded from the red book of the city of Moscow ”,“ the List of animals, plants and mushrooms that are not listed in the red book of the city of Moscow, but needing constant monitoring and observation on the territory of the city of Moscow ”,“ a list of natural monuments and protected areas to be created on specially protected natural and landscaped ter ritoria of the city of Moscow, intended for the formation of protected areas ")
- ↑ Ants of Moscow Region. Environmental research methods. Archived October 28, 2008 on Wayback Machine (Russian) (Retrieved August 11, 2011)
- ↑ Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. III. Hymenoptera. The first part // Suborder Apocrita - Calf-bellied ( Arnoldi K.V. et al.) / Under the general. ed. G. S. Medvedev . - L .: Nauka, 1978.- S. 552. - 584 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 119). - 3500 copies.
- ↑ Striganova B.R. , Zakharov A.A. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names: Insects (Latin-Russian-English-German-French) /Ed. Dr. biol. sciences, prof. B.R. Striganova . - M .: RUSSO, 2000 .-- S. 296. - 1060 copies. - ISBN 5-88721-162-8 .
- ↑ 1 2 Bernhard Seifert: Die Ameisen Mittel- und Nordeuropas . lutra Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Görlitz / Tauer 2007, ISBN 978-3-936412-03-1
- ↑ Camponotus ligniperdus (Latreille 1802) on Faunaeur.org
- ↑ Radchenko A. G. “Overview of ants of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Palearctic. Introduction Subgenus Camponotus s. str. ”// Zoological journal . 1997. T. 76, No. 5. P. 554-564.
Links
- Camponotus ligniperda - European woodbearing ant (Russian)
- Camponotus ligniperdus - European woodbearing ant (Russian)
- Camponotus ligniperda . Encyclopedia of Life. Date of treatment January 10, 2012. Archived May 15, 2012.
- Camponotus ligniperdus (Latreille 1802) Faunaeur.org. Date of treatment January 10, 2012. Archived May 15, 2012.