First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Author Subedi, I. P. Author Budha, P. B. Author Bharti, H. Author Alonso, L. Author Yamane, S. text Zoodiversity 2021 55 4 279 284 http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.04.279 journal article 10.15407/zoo2021.04.279 2707-7268 6377841 Camponotus sericeus ( Fabricius, 1798 ) (fig. 3) Materials examined. Nepal : Sarlahi, Sagarnath [ 26.99428 N 85.67252 E ], 115 m , Eucalyptus camaldulensis plantation, 21.10.2020 , 2 ♀ workers (B Shrestha & T Sherpa); Tanahun, Ratanpur [ 28.08777 N 84.39275 E ], 859 m , Champ ( Magnolia champaca ) plantation, 29.11.2020 , 1 ♀ worker (PB Budha & P Shrestha). D i s t r i b u t i o n. Nepal (new record), India , Sri Lanka , Pakistan , Thailand , Myanmar , Afghanistan , Iran , Saudi Arabia , Oman , Yemen , Egypt , Libya , Algeria , Mauritania , Mali , Guinea , Ivory coast , Burkina Faso , Niger , Mali , Nigeria , Chad , Sudan , Ethiopia , Uganda , Congo , Zaire , Tanzania , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Mozambique , Fig. 3. Camponotus sericeus . Botswana , Namibia , South Africa . T a x o n o m i c n o t e s. The worker has a robust body, coarse sculpture on the head and mesosoma; the gaster is covered by thick, apprised, golden mossy pubescence, so that cuticular sculpture is not visible without removing hair. We identified our materials as C. sericeus based on the key in Ionescu-Hirsch (2009) and taxon discussion in Wachkoo & Akbar (2016) . This species closely resembles C. opaciventris but can be distinguished from the latter by the gaster having a dense layer of pubescence ( Wachkoo & Akbar, 2016 ).