Review of the Camponotus samius complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Turano-Balkan region, with the description of a new species from Iran
Author
Salata, Sebastian
Author
Khalili-Moghadam, Arsalan
Author
Borowiec, Lech
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-15
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10.11646/zootaxa.4763.4.5
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Camponotus riedeli
Pisarski, 1971
Fig. 19
Camponotus festai
subsp.
riedeli
Pisarski, 1971: 728
(s.w.).
Holotype
major worker
,
Salahuddin
ad
Erbil
,
Iraq
(
MZPW
) [
Holotype
worker images examined, AntWeb, CASENT0917222, photos by Kate Martynova, available on AntWeb.org].
Diagnosis.
Hind tibia and scape with decumbent to suberect pilosity and additional erect setae; gena with numerous erect setae; head, mesosoma and gaster brownish-black to black, legs in major and minor workers mostly brownish-black only coxa yellowish to yellowish brown, scape and first segment of funiculus black, remaining segments of funiculus yellowish; pilosity on gaster dense.
Distribution.
Iraq
(
Pisarski 1971
, Radchenko 1996).
Biology.
Camponotus riedeli
is poorly known. Workers were collected on slopes of limestone hills (
Pisarski 1971
).