Camponotus interjectus (lat.) - a species of ants of the genus Camponotus ( Camponotus ) (subgenus Myrmentoma ) from the subfamily Formicina ( Formicinae ).
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Distribution
Afghanistan , Israel , Iraq , Iran , China , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Turkmenistan [1] .
Description
The body is shiny, two-tone: the head and abdomen are black, the chest is red or red-brown. Mesoprodedeal impression deep. Propodeum angular, with spaced hairs. Working ants are 5–9 mm long, females 12–13 mm long, and males 7–8 mm long. Small families (about 300 individuals). Desert view. In Turkmenistan they live in the foothills of the Kopetdag mountains, dry steppe and rocky areas [2] [3] [1] . The species was first described in 1877 by the Austrian worldmecologist Gustav Mayr based on the materials of the expedition of A. P. Fedchenko to Turkestan [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 : magazine. - 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 .
- ↑ Mayr, G. 1877. Formicidae. In: Fedchenko, AP Travels in Turkestan. Vol. 2, Div. 5, No. 7. - Izv. Imp. Obshch. Lyubit. Estestvozn. Antropol. Etnogr. Imp. Mosk. Univ. 26: i-iii, 1-20 (+1). (page 4)
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.