Camponotus interjectus

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Camponotus interjectus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species group: lateralis
Species complex: sicheli
Species: C. interjectus
Binomial name
Camponotus interjectus
Mayr, 1877

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Specimen Labels

Inhabits semi-desert and mountain steppes, building nests in soil (Radchenko 1997).

Identification

Radchenko (1997) - A member of the Camponotus lateralis species group.

Ionescu-Hirsch (2009) - According to Menozzi (1933), the Israeli specimens of C. interjectus have the metanotal groove distinctly impressed, similar to Camponotus rebeccae, but differ from C. rebeccae by having erect setae scattered all over the propodeal dorsum, as opposed to a single transversal row of erect setae restricted to the junction of the propodeal dorsum with declivity; they have a black head and gaster, as opposed to the head paler than the gaster in C. rebeccae.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Ionescu-Hirsch (2009) - Afghanistan and central Asia (Radchenko, 1997c); also recorded from Israel (Menozzi, 1933), Jordan (Wheeler and Mann, 1916), and Dagestan (Radchenko, 1997c).

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 48.54° to 34.8333°.

   
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan (type locality), Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code casent0911142. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • interjectus. Camponotus interjectus Mayr, 1877: 4 (w.q.) UZBEKISTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN.
    • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
    • Type-localities: Uzbekistan: Samarkand, 27.ii., 21.iii., 2.vii.1869, 2.vii.1870 (A.P. Fedchenko), Uzbekistan: Zarafshan, 25.iv., 12, 22, 24.v.1870 (A.P. Fedchenko), Uzbekistan: Dzhamsk, 13.v. (A.P. Fedchenko), Uzbekistan: Urgut (A.P. Fedchenko), Uzbekistan: Tashkent, 23, 28.iii.1871 (A.P. Fedchenko), Uzbekistan: Karak, 7.v.1871 (A.P. Fedchenko), Kygyzstan: Osh, 6.viii.1871 (A.P. Fedchenko), Kazakhstan: Syr Darya (A.P. Fedchenko).
    • Type-depositories: NHMW, ZMUM.
    • [Also described as new by Mayr, 1880: 24.]
    • Karavaiev, 1910b: 12 (s.); Tarbinsky, 1976: 161 (m.).
    • Combination in C. (Orthonotomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 273;
    • combination in C. (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1920b: 257.
    • Subspecies of lateralis: Ruzsky, 1905b: 258; Karavaiev, 1910b: 12; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923: 242; Ruzsky, 1923: 2; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b: 36.
    • Status as species: Mayr, 1880: 24; André, 1882a: 150 (in key); Nasonov, 1889: 12; Dalla Torre, 1893: 236; Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Ruzsky, 1902d: 8; Forel, 1914a: 273; Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 174; Emery, 1925a: 64; Emery, 1925b: 119; Menozzi, 1933b: 82 (in key); Collingwood, 1961a: 73; Pisarski, 1967: 414; Tarbinsky, 1976: 161 (redescription); Dlussky, 1981a: 17; Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 134; Bolton, 1995b: 105; Radchenko, 1996b: 1197 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 706; Schultz, R. et al. 2006: 205; Borowiec, M.L. et al. 2009: 378; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 39; Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 74; Paknia, et al. 2010: 31; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 68; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 28; Borowiec, L. 2014: 34; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2020: 3.
    • Distribution: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • Collingwood C. A. 1961. The third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. Zoological Results 27. Formicidae (Insecta) from Afghanistan. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 123: 51-79.
  • Dubovikoff D. A., and Z. M. Yusupov. 2018. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
  • Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
  • Ionescu-Hirsch A. 2009. An annotated list of Camponotus of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key and descriptions of new species. ISRAEL JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY 39: 57–98.
  • Karavaiev V. 1911. Ameisen aus Transkaspien und Turkestan. Tr. Rus. Entomol. Obshch. 39: 1-72.
  • Kuznetsov G. T. 1990. Comparative analysis of Hymenoptera (Formicidae) population on altitudinal zones of central Kopetdag. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1990(3): 64-67.
  • Marikovsky P. I. 1979. Ants of the Semireche Desert. [In Russian.]. Alma Ata: Nauka, 263 pp.
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  • Radchenko A. G. 1997. A review of ants of the subgenus Myrmentoma, Genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), from Asian Palaearctic. Entomological Review 77(8): 1050-1059.
  • Ran H., and S. Y. Zhou. 2011. Checklist of Chinese Ants: the Formicomorph Subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (I). Journal of Guangxi Normal University: Natural Science Edition. 29(3): 65-73.
  • Reznikova Z. I. 2003. Distribution patterns of ants in different natural zones and landscapes in Kazakhstan and West Siberia along a meridian trend. Euroasian Entomological Journal 2(4): 235-342.
  • Ruzsky, M. 1923. Ants of Cheleken Island. Izv. Tomsk. Gos. Univ. 72(2nd p part: 1-6
  • Schultz, R., A. G. Radchenko, and B. Seifert. "A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 201-207.
  • Wheeler W. M., and W. M. Mann. 1916. The ants of the Phillips Expedition to Palestine during 1914. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 167-174.
  • Wu wei, Li Xiao Mei, Guo Hong. 2004. A primary study on the fauna of Formicidae in Urumqi and its vicinities. Arid Zone Research 21(2): 179-182
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