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Camponotus riedeli
| Camponotus riedeli | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Subgenus: | Tanaemyrmex |
| Species complex: | samius |
| Species: | C. riedeli |
| Binomial name | |
| Camponotus riedeli Pisarski, 1971
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Camponotus riedeli is poorly known. Workers were collected on slopes of limestone hills (Pisarski 1971).
Identification
A member of the Camponotus samius species complex (Tanaemyrmex).
Salata et al. (2020) - 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.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Iraq (type locality).
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. |
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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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- riedeli. Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) festai subsp. riedeli Pisarski, 1971b: 728, figs. 1-5 (s.w.) IRAQ.
- Type-material: holotype major worker, 15 paratype workers.
- Type-locality: holotype Iraq: Kurdistan, Erbil Prov., Salahuddin, 17.iv.1961 (A. Riedel); paratypes: 11 workers with same data, 1 worker Kurdistan, Sarsang, 24.v.1968, no. 68/171 (P. Starý), 1 worker Kurdistan, Salahuddin, nr Shaqlava, 10.vii.1968, no. 68/268 (P. Starý), 2 workers Kurdistan, Sari Rash, nr Salahuddin, 10.vii.1968, no. 68/333 (P. Starý).
- Type-depository: MIZW.
- Subspecies of festai: Bolton, 1995b: 120.
- Status as species: Radchenko, 1996b: 1200 (in key); Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Borowiec, L. 2014: 40; Salata, Khalili-Moghadam, et al. 2020: 561.
- Distribution: Iraq.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Type Material
Salata et al. (2020) - Holotype major worker, Salahuddin ad Erbil, Iraq (Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Holotype worker images examined, AntWeb, CASENT0917222, photos by Kate Martynova.
References
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Pisarski, B. 1971b. Les fourmis du genre Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) d'Iraq. Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci. Sér. Biol. 19: 727-731 (page 728, figs. 1-5 soldier, worker described)
- Radchenko, A. G. 1996e. A key to the ant genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Palearctic Asia. Zool. Zh. 7 75: 1195-1203 (page 1200, Raised to species (in key))
- Radchenko, A. G. 1997d. Review of ants of the subgenera Tanaemyrmex, Colobopsis, Myrmamblis, Myrmosericus, Orthonotomyrmex and Paramyrmamblis of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Asian Palearctic. Zool. Zh. 76: 806-815 (page 809, Raised to species)
- Salata, S., Khalili-Moghadam, A., Borowiec, L. 2020. Review of the Camponotus samius complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Turano-Balkan region, with the description of a new species from Iran. Zootaxa 4763(4): 545–562 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4763.4.5).
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.