Camponotus libanicus (lat.) Is a species of wood ants of the genus Camponotus from the subfamily Formicina ( Formicidae ) [1] .
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Distribution
Western Palaearctic: Greece , Israel , Iran , Cyprus, Lebanon , Turkey [1] [2] .
Description
Wood ants are brownish-black. Medium in size, workers about 5 mm long (soldiers up to 1 cm). It differs in the following signs: black or brown-black stings, tendril scapus and legs; occipital angles and scape with spaced hairs; petiol rough sculptured, matte; the rest of the body is covered with numerous spaced hairs; the petiol is thick, the body is densely punctured, the dorsal surface of the mesosome is only with a methanotic suture. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of one segment ( petiolus ) bearing a vertical scale [1] .
Systematics
The species was first described in 1881 and included in the subgenus Myrmentoma along with such species as Camponotus boghossiani , Camponotus aktaci and Camponotus aegaeus . The species name C. libanicus is given by the name of the country where the type series ( Lebanon ) was found [1] [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Karaman, C .; Aktaç, N. Descriptions of four new species of Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key for the worker caste of the Camponotus of Turkey (Eng.) // Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society: journal. - Kansas: Kansas Entomological Society, 2013. - Vol. 86 (1). - P. 36-56.
- ↑ Borowiec, L. & Salata, S. 2013. Ants of Greece - additions and corrections (Hymenoptera Formicidae). - Genus (Wroclaw) 24, 335-401.
- ↑ André, E. 1881c. Catalog raisonné des Formicides provenant du voyage en Orient de M. Abeille de Perrin et description des espèces nouvelles. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr (6) (1): 53-78 (page 54, pl. 3, figs. 14, 15)
Literature
- Radchenko A. G. “Review of ants of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Palearctic. Introduction Subgenus Camponotus s. str. ”// Zool. journal 1997. T. 76, No. 5. P. 554-564.
- Karaman, C. 2011. Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) Cinsi Turkiye Revizyonu. Ph.D. Dissertation, Trakya University; Edirne; V + 225 pp.
- Karaman, C., N. Aktac¸, and K. Kiran. 2011. "Ants of the genus Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Kaz Mountains, Turkey, with descriptions of sexuals of Camponotus candiotes Emery, 1894 and Camponotus ionius Emery, 1920." // Turkish Journal of Zoology 35: 183 -197.
- Kadrİ Kiran & Celal Karaman. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548: 1–38.
Links
- Camponotus Carpenter Ants on eol.org