Camponotus oasium (lat.) - a species of ants of the genus Camponotus ( Camponotus ) (subgenus Tanaemyrmex ) from the subfamily Formicina ( Formicinae ).
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Content
- 1 Distribution
- 2 Description
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Distribution
North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia), Central Asia (Turkmenistan), the Middle East , Afghanistan , Iran , Oman , Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates [1] .
Description
The body is yellow-brown; head from reddish brown to black. Scapus , cheeks and lower legs without standing hairs. Working ants are 5–9 mm long, females 12–13 mm long, and males 7–8 mm long. Desert view. In Turkmenistan, they live in the foothills of the Kopetdag , on the slopes and scree. The species Camponotus bactrianus, known from Central Asia, was later (Radchenko, 1997) synonymous with Camponotus oasium [2] [3] [1] . The species was first described in 1890 by the Swiss worldmecologist Auguste Trout based on materials from North Africa [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Radchenko A. G. The identification table of ants of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Asian part of the Palearctic // Zool. journal (Russian) // Zool. journal : Journal. - M .: Nauka, 1996. - T. 75 , No. 8 . - S. 1195-1203 .
- ↑ Dlussky G.M. , Soyunov O.S., Zabelin S.I. Ants of Turkmenistan. - Ashgabat: Ylym, 1989 .-- S. 140-142. - 273 p.
- ↑ Radchenko A.G. Review of ants of the subgenus Tanaemyrmex, Colobopsis, Myrmamblis, Myrmosericus, Orthonotomyrmex and Paramyrmamblis of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Asian part of the Palearctic (Russian) // Zoological Journal : Journal. - M .: Nauka, 1997. - T. 76 , No. 7 . - S. 806-815 .
- ↑ Forel, A. 1890. Fourmis de Tunisie et de l'Algérie orientale. - Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 34: lxi-lxxvi. (page lxv)
Literature
- Dlussky G. M. Desert Ants / Otv. ed. Arnoldi K.V. - Moscow: Nauka, 1981. - 230 p. - 1600 copies.
- Dlussky G.M., Soyunov O.S., Zabelin S.I. Ants of Turkmenistan. - Ashgabat: Ylym, 1989 .-- S. 140-142. - 273 p.
- Karaman, C. 2011. Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) Cinsi Turkiye Revizyonu. Ph.D. Dissertation, Trakya University; Edirne; V + 225 pp.
- Karaman, C .; Aktaç, N. 2013. Descriptions of four new species of Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key for the worker caste of the Camponotus of Turkey. - Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 86 (1): 36-56.