Camponotus lateralis (lat.) Is a species of wood ants of the genus Camponotus from the subfamily Formicina ( Formicidae ) [1] .
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Distribution
Western Palaearctic: Northwest Africa ( Algeria ); The Caucasus ; Crimea; Southern and Central Europe ; Israel Lebanon Syria Turkey [1] [2] .
Description
Wood ants are reddish-black (head and breast are reddish-brown, belly is brownish-brown). Medium in size, workers about 5 mm long (soldiers and females are larger). It differs in the following features: spaced hairs are only in the posterior part of the dorsum of the propodeum; propodeal dosum behind angular, but without teeth; body weakly punctured (partially shiny), dorsal surface of the mesosome with a deep methanotic suture. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of one segment ( petiolus ), bearing a vertical scale. The sting is absent [1] .
Systematics
The species was first described in 1792 using materials from France under the original name Formica lateralis Olivier, 1792 and later included in the subgenus Myrmentoma along with such species as Camponotus piceus , Camponotus gestroi and Camponotus anatolicus [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.
- ↑ Olivier, AG 1792. Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Insectes. Tome 6. (pt. 2). Paris: Panckoucke, pp. 369-704. (page 497)
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