Camponotus ruzskyellus

Camponotus ruzskyellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. ruzskyellus
Binomial name
Camponotus ruzskyellus Forel, 1922

Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) found this species in Iran on the ground and under rock in moderate rainfall, montane areas.

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Kazakhstan (type locality), Iran, Iraq.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• ruzskyellus. Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus r. ruzskyellus Forel, 1922: 98 (w.) KAZAKHSTAN.
  • Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
  • Type-locality: Kazakhstan (“Turkestan”): Margellan, xi. (M. Ruzsky).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 104.
  • Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 104; Bolton, 1995b: 121.
  • Junior synonym of oasium: Radchenko, 1997d: 809.
  • Status as species: Pashaei Rad et al., 2018: 3.

Taxonomic Notes

Pashaei Rad et al. (2018): Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) ruzskyellus Forel, 1922 (as Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus F. r. ruzskyellus n. stirps; raised to species Emery 1925: 104). Type location Armenia, CASENT0910314, also reported from Iraq. The synonymy under C. oasium by Radchenko (1997b: 809) appears wrong as shown by the very clear differences between the wholly pale type and the likely dark brown workers of oasium from North Africa (Brian Taylor, pers. observ.).

Note that Bolton (in his unpublished An online catalogue of the ants of the world, 15 Feb. 2020) does not recognise the species status proposed by Pashaei Rad et al. (2018), noting that "the entries in this publication are omitted from the catalogue as it contains numerous nomenclatural errors; it also ignores previous taxonomic decisions, and entirely fails to apply ICZN rules that govern the availability of names in the species-group."

References

• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302.
• Forel, A. 1922b. Glanures myrmécologiques en 1922. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30:87-102.
• Pashaei Rad, S., Taylor, B., Torabi, R., Aram, E., Abolfathi, G., Afshari, R., Borjali, F., Ghatei, M., Hediary, F., Jazini, F., Heidary Kiah, V., Mahmoudi, Z., Safariyan, F., Seiri, M. 2018. Further records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 64, 145-159 (doi:10.1080/09397140.2018.1442301).
• 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. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76:806-815. 132073