Camponotus kiesenwetteri
Camponotus kiesenwetteri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Camponotus |
Subgenus: | Myrmentoma |
Species group: | kiesenwetteri |
Species: | C. kiesenwetteri |
Binomial name | |
Camponotus kiesenwetteri (Roger, 1859) |
This species inhabits dry grassy areas and thin forests, building nests in soil, often under rocks (Radchenko 1997). It is strongly associated with pine forests, and a single nest was located under a stone inside a Pinus pinea forest in Strofilias National Park, Greece (Borowiec & Salata, 2021).
Identification
Salata et al. (2019) - A member of the Camponotus kiesenwetteri species group. Head, mesosoma, and gaster uniformly black; metanotal groove present, shallow; propodeum with distinct dentate protrusions; body densely punctate, appears dull; base of scape with extension; whole body bears long, thick, pale, dense and erect setae, and short appressed microsetae; petiolar scale thick.
The species can be easily separated by the following combination of characters: strongly sculptured body, mesosoma with metanotal groove and posterior margin of propodeum with distinct dentate protrusions, and antennal scape with distinct basal extension. Camponotus nitidescens and Camponotus schulzi both differ in having a partly shiny body, and Camponotus boghossiani differs in having a propodeum without apical protrusions and an antennal scape without basal extension.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Salata et al. (2019) - Greece: Attica, North Aegean Islands, South Aegean Islands (Cyclades, Dodecanese), Central Greece, Crete (Chania, Heraklion, Lasithi, Rethymno), Ionian Islands, Central Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Peloponnese; Cyprus; Turkey: Balıkesir, İzmir and Muğla.
This is a common species, so far not recorded only from Epirus and Thessaly (Borowiec et al., 2022).
The species was recorded from most of Greek provinces except Epirus and Thessaly.
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 40.8725° to 27.84436°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece (type locality), Iran, Türkiye.
Distribution based on AntMaps
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. |
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. |
Biology
See the Camponotus kiesenwetteri species group page for information about the biology of C. kiesenwetteri.
Castes
Worker
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- kiesenwetteri. Formica (Hypoclinea) kiesenwetteri Roger, 1859: 241 (w.m.) (m. excluded, see Mayr, 1861: 39) GREECE (Zakynthos (= Zante) I.).
- [Misspelled as kiesenvetteri by André, 1874: 178 (in key).]
- Forel, 1886e: clxi (q.m.).
- Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1861: 36 (in key);
- combination in C. (Orthonotomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 273; Santschi, 1921f: 310;
- combination in C. (Myrmentoma): Forel, 1912i: 92; Emery, 1925b: 121.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1861: 36 (in key); Roger, 1861b: 164; Mayr, 1863: 399; Roger, 1863b: 1; André, 1874: 178 (in key); Emery & Forel, 1879: 449; Forel, 1879a: 94; André, 1882a: 150 (in key); Forel, 1886e: clx; Forel, 1889: 260; Dalla Torre, 1893: 237; Emery, 1894j: 10; Emery, 1896d: 376 (in list); Forel, 1910a: 23; Forel, 1911d: 355; Emery, 1915h: 2; Emery, 1925b: 121; Menozzi, 1936d: 304; Hamann & Klemm, 1976: 677; Aktaç, 1977: 126; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 58; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 283 (in key); Collingwood, 1993b: 195; Bolton, 1995b: 106; Radchenko, 1996b: 1197 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 705; Petrov, 2006: 108 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 31; Karaman, C. et al. 2011: 189; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 477; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 7; Karaman, C. & Aktaç, 2013: 50 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 35 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 136; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2018: 4; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 43; Salata, Loss, et al. 2019: 92.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Taxonomic Notes
Seifert (2019): This taxon has been described from Greece. The type specimen depicted in antweb.org under FOCOL2486 shows a much stronger, more reticulate-foveolate sculpture and much denser pubescence on all body surfaces than observed in any member of the C. lateralis group. This results in a matte surface appearance at smaller magnifications. Yet, C. kiesenwetteri is certainly related to this group considering several body shape characters.
Description
Type Material
Salata et al. (2019) - Syntype workers, Greece (Berlin Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität) [Syntype workers of Formica (Hypoclinea) kiesenwetteri, AntWeb, (FOCOL2486 and FOCOL2487)
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