Camponotus kefir (lat.) - a species of ants of the genus Camponotus ( Camponotus ) (subgenus Tanaemyrmex ) from the subfamily Formicina (Formicinae). The species name is given by Mount Kefir (in Hebrew means “young lion”), where a type series was found. Endemic of Israel.
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Distribution
Middle East : Israel (Har Kefir) [1] .
Description
They differ from similar species in a brilliant body sculpture, in the absence of spaced hairs on the hind tibia, and two-tone color; hind tibia flattened with distinct longitudinal keel; cheeks with spaced hairs. Working ants are brown-black (chest, antennae and legs are brown, and the head and abdomen are brownish-black; legs and lower part of the chest are lighter to yellowish brown), have a length of 9.6-13.3 mm, head length = 2, 15-3.53 mm, head width = 1.33-3.36 mm [1] [2] [3] [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Ionescu-Hirsch, A. An annotated list of Camponotus of Israel, with a key and descriptions of new species (Eng.) // Israel Journal of Entomology. - 2010 (2009). - Vol. 39 . - P. 57-98 .
- ↑ Marko, B., Ionescu-Hirsch, A., Szasz-Len, A. 2009 (2010). Genus Camponotus Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Romania: distribution and identification key to the worker caste. Entomologica romanica 14: 29–41
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Radchenko A. G. The identification table of ants of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Asian part of the Palearctic (Russian) // Zoological Journal : Journal. - M .: Nauka, 1996. - T. 75 , No. 8 . - S. 1195-1203 .
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. 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. - 2013 .-- Vol. 86 (1) . - P. 36-56 .