Camponotus kopetdaghensis

Identification
Radchenko (1997) - A member of the Camponotus lateralis species group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Iran, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) kopetdaghensis Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 236, fig. 8 (s.w.) TURKMENISTAN.
 * Status as species: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 107; Radchenko, 1996b: 1197 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 706; Paknia, et al. 2008: 153; Borowiec, L. 2014: 35.

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.
 * Dlussky G. M., O. S. Soyunov, and S. I. Zabelin. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.
 * Kuznetsov G. T. 1990. Comparative analysis of Hymenoptera (Formicidae) population on altitudinal zones of central Kopetdag. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1990(3): 64-67.
 * 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.