Camponotus vogti

Identification
Ionescu-Hirsch (2009) - C. vogti is the sister-species of Camponotus kurdistanicus in the Camponotus gestroi species complex of the Camponotus lateralis species group (Radchenko, 1997c). The Israeli specimen in the collection is similar morphologically to C. kurdistanicus, but its head is dorsally brown and ventrally light ferruginous, as opposed to the completely black head in C. kurdistanicus.

Israeli specimens of C. vogti and C. kurdistanicus may be color varieties of a single species.

Distribution
Ionescu-Hirsch (2009) - Balkans, Turkey (Asia Minor) (Radchenko, 1997c), Lebanon (Tohmé, 1969a), Israel, and Iran (Paknia et al., 2008).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus vogti Forel, 1906c: 187 (w.) TURKEY.
 * Combination in C. (Orthonotomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 273;
 * combination in C. (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1920b: 257.
 * Junior synonym of kurdistanicus: Emery, 1920b: 257.
 * Subspecies of kurdistanicus: Emery, 1920c: 26; Emery, 1925a: 70 (in text); Emery, 1925b: 120.
 * Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 283 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 129; Radchenko, 1996b: 1197 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 708; Petrov, 2006: 108 (in key); Paknia, et al. 2008: 153; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 39; Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 92; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8; Karaman, C. & Aktaç, 2013: 51 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 45; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 138.

Worker
Ionescu-Hirsch (2009) - TL = 7.2, HL = 1.74, HW = 1.74, EL = 0.42, SL = 1.39, ML = 2.30, PW = 1.25, mTbL = 1.21, hTbL = 1.74 (n = 1).

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.
 * Forel A. 1906. Fourmis d'Asie mineure et de la Dobrudscha récoltées par M. le Dr. Oscar Vogt et Mme Cécile Vogt, Dr. méd. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 50: 187-190.
 * 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.
 * Kiran K., and C. Karaman. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548: 1-38.
 * Paknia O., A. Radchenko, H. Alipanah, and M. Pfeiffer. 2008. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran. Myrmecological News 11: 151-159.
 * 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.
 * Tohme G. 1996. Formicidae. Etude de la diversité biologique n° 4 . Ministère de lAgriculture à Beyrouth (Eds.). P85-87.
 * Vonshak M., and A. Ionescu-Hirsch. 2009. A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39: 33-55.