Camponotus tashcumiri

Camponotus tashcumiri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Camponotus
Species:	C. tashcumiri
Binomial name
Camponotus tashcumiri Tarbinsky, 1976

This species was collected in Gobi desert only once. Nocturnal in activity (Aibek & Yamane, 2009).

Identification

Aibek & Yamane (2009) - In the Asian Tanaemyrmex some other species (Camponotus barbatus, Camponotus turkestanicus, Camponotus baldaccii, Camponotus fellah, etc.) also have the ventral surface of the head with standing hairs and scape without standing hairs. Among them Camponotus barbatus is a very hairy and black species; the head is extensively covered with standing hairs. In Camponotus baldaccii the ventral surface of the head has short, sparse standing hairs; the alitrunk and anterior half of the gaster are yellow or brownish yellow and the remainder part of the gaster is blackish brown. Campononcs fellah has similar structural and hair conditions to those of C. baldaccii, but the body is wholly black. In conclusion C. tashcumiri is separable from all the Asian species with standing hairs on the ventral surface of the head by a combination of the occurrence of standing hairs on the gena and wholly yellowish body.

Keys including this Species

• Key to Camponotus of Mongolia

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 41.508577° to 41.508577°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Kyrgyzstan (type locality), Mongolia.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• tashcumiri. Camponotus tashcumiri Tarbinsky, 1976: 158, figs. 280, 281 (s.w.) KYRGYZSTAN.
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 15 paratype workers.
  • Type-locality: holotype Kyrgyzstan: Fergansk range, vic. Tash-Kumyr, 15.v.1966 (Yu. S. Tarbinsky).
  • Type-depositories: NASK, ZMUM.
  • [Note: depository of holotype is not specified.]
  • [Misspelled as tashkumiri by Radchenko, 1997d: 810.]
  • Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Aibek & Yamane, 2009: 04.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 126; Radchenko, 1996b: 1201 (in key); Radchenko, 1997d: 810; Schultz, R. et al. 2006: 205; Aibek & Yamane, 2009: 104 (redescription).
  • Distribution: Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia.

References

• Aibek, U., Ulzii, T., Yamane, S., Proshchalykin, M.Y. 2024. New records of the ant genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Mongolia: discovery of the subgenus Myrmentoma. Asian Myrmecology 17, e017002 (doi:10.20362/AM.017002).
• Aibek, U., Yamane, S. 2009. Taxonomic review of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) from Mongolia. Biogeography 11, 97-108.
• Tarbinsky, Y.S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. (page 158, figs. 280, 281 soldier, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Aibek U., and S. Yamane. 2009. Taxonomic review of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) from Mongolia. Biogeography 11: 97-108.
• Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
• Schultz, R., A. G. Radchenko, and B. Seifert. "A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 201-207.