Key to Camponotus of Turkey

This worker key is based on: [[Media:Karaman aktac 2013.pdf|Karaman, C.; Aktaç, N. 2013. Descriptions of four new species of Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key for the worker caste of the Camponotus of Turkey. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 86(1):36-56. PDF]]

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 * Camponotus
 * Turkey

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 * In soldiers, head truncated anteriorly as in queen (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5a); in minor workers, propodeal dorsum transversally concave; petiole dorsum concave in frontal view; dimorphic species NW Africa; Caucasus; Crimea; Cyprus; Southern and Central Europe (until to Poland); Kopet Dag; Middle East; Ukraine; Turkey . . . . . Colobopsis truncata


 * Workers’ head not truncated anteriorly; with different characteristics combined . . . . . 2

2
return to couplet #1
 * Metanotal groove absent; mesosoma in profile quite convex; propodeal dorsum meets propodeal declivity at an obtuse angle . . . . . 18


 * Metanotal groove always present; propodeal dorsum meets declivity at an acute angle . . . . . 3

3
return to couplet #2
 * Whole body (especially gaster) densely punctured, appears dull . . . . . 4


 * Whole body (especially gaster) weakly punctured or reticulate, appears more or less shiny . . . . . 8

4
return to couplet #3
 * Dorsal surface of mesosoma only with metanotal suture (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5b, c) . . . . . 5


 * Dorsal surface of mesosoma at least with shallow metanotal groove (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5f, g) . . . . . 7

5
return to couplet #4
 * Petiole thin Bulgaria; Greece; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) aegaeus


 * Petiole thick . . . . . 6

6
return to couplet #5
 * Mandible, scape, and legs red; occipital corners and scape without erect hairs; petiole weakly sculptured and more or less shiny; whole body with scarce erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5b, d) . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) aktaci


 * Mandible, scape and legs dark brown-black or black; occipital corners and scape with erect hairs; petiole coarsely sculptured and dull; whole body with long, abundant erect hairs Cyprus; Greece; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; Turkey (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5c) . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) libanicus

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return to couplet #4
 * Propodeal dorsum posteriorly with short teeth Cyprus; Greece; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) kiesenwetteri


 * Propodeal dorsum posteriorly without teeth Greece; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) boghossiani

8
return to couplet #3
 * Whole body black . . . . . 9


 * Body color different, at least some parts of mesosoma reddish . . . . . 11

9
return to couplet #8
 * Dorsum of mesosoma with deep metanotal groove NW Africa; Caucasus; Southern and Central Europe, Southeastern Europe; northern Kazakhstan; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) piceus


 * Dorsum of mesosoma with shallow metanotal groove or with suture (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5d, e) . . . . . 10

10
return to couplet #9
 * Dorsum of propodeum meets declivity at a rounded blunt angle; mesosoma and gaster with abundant erect hairs NW Africa (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5d); Armenia; Southern Europe; Iraq; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) gestroi


 * Dorsum of propodeum meets declivity at an acute angle (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5e); mesosoma and gaster with scarce erect hairs Middle East . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) abrahami

11
return to couplet #8
 * Dorsum of mesosoma with metanotal groove (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5f, g) . . . . . 12


 * Dorsum of mesosoma without metanotal groove, only metanotal suture present . . . . . 17

12
return to couplet #11
 * Especially in minor workers metanotal groove quite deep; petiole rather low; first gastral tergite brownish red and lighter than other gastric segment . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) anatolicus


 * In minor workers, metanotal groove more shallow; petiole high; whole gaster dark brown to black . . . . . 13

13
return to couplet #12
 * Erect hairs present only on posterior part of propodeal dorsum, subdecumbent hairs absent (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5f) . . . . . 14


 * Whole propodeal dorsum with erect and/or subdecumbent hairs . . . . . 15

14
return to couplet #13
 * Head and mesosoma red (head can be partly brownish) NW Africa; Crimea; Caucasus; Southern and Central Europe; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) lateralis


 * Head brownish to black, mesosoma red or only pronotum red, rest of the mesosoma brownish black Bosnia and Hercegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Israel; Italy; Lebanon; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; Switzerland; Syria; Turkey. . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) dalmaticus

15
return to couplet #13
 * Occipital corners with erect hairs; scape with more than 5 erect hairs . . . . . 16


 * Occipital corners and scape without erect hairs in minor workers, occipital corners bare or with one short erect hair; scape with at most 3 erect hairs in major workers . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) honaziensis

16
return to couplet #15
 * Dorsum of pronotum and mesonotum with abundant erect hairs; propodeal dorsum with abundant erect and short subdecumbent hairs . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) hirtus


 * Dorsum of pronotum and mesonotum with sparse erect hairs; posterior part of propodeal dorsum with erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5g) Croatia; Greece; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) candiotes

17
return to couplet #11
 * Head and mesosoma red Balkans; Former Yugoslavia; Lebanon; Israel; Iran; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) vogti


 * Head dark brown, mesosoma red China; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) kurdistanicus

18
return to couplet #2
 * Anterior margin of clypeus rounded, does not form a small subrectangular lobe beyond the genal margins (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5h) . . . . . 19


 * Anterior margin of clypeus extended and forms a small subrectangular lobe beyond the genal margins (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5j; 6b, f, h) . . . . . 24

19
return to couplet #18
 * Whole body shiny . . . . . 20


 * Whole body subopaque or dull . . . . . 21

20
return to couplet #19
 * Genae, lateral sides of head, occipital corners, and scape with short erect hairs; mesosoma and gaster with long, abundant erect hairs Hungary; Italy; Romania; Slovenia; Turkish Thrace (European part of Turkey) . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) tergestinus


 * Genae, lateral sides of head, occipital corners, and scape without erect hairs; mesosoma and gaster with long, scarce erect hairs Europe, Georgia, Iran, Israel, northwestern Kazakhstan, Morocco, southern part of Siberia, Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) fallax

21
return to couplet #19
 * Whole body black . . . . . 22


 * Body bicolored, mesosoma red, head and gaster black except for anterior part of first gastral segment which lighter than rest of gaster . . . . . 23

22
return to couplet #21
 * Anterior margin of clypeus notched medially (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5i) Iraq; Israel; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus cilicicus


 * Anterior margin of clypeus without median notch NW Africa; Caucasus; Europe (until southern Sweden and Finland); N. Kazakhstan; until the Altai mountains in Asia; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus vagus

23
return to couplet #21
 * Anterior half of the first gaster segment reddish, the rest of the gaster black Caucasus; Europe; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus ligniperda


 * Whole gaster black or only reddish spot at anterior of first segment of gaster Caucasus; Northern and Eastern Europe; southern and central European Mountains; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; Siberia; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus herculeanus

24
return to couplet #18
 * Gaster with short, dense, thick, decumbent pilosity, hairs 3–3.5 times longer than the distance between each other southern Caucasus; Iran; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Myrmosericus) armeniacus


 * Gaster with much sparser and shorter, decumbent pilosity, hairs at most 2.5 times longer than the distance between each other . . . . . 25

25
return to couplet #24
 * Tibiae ventrally with a row of bristles (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5k) . . . . . 26


 * Tibiae ventrally without a row of bristles . . . . . 37

26
return to couplet #25
 * Gaster with abundant, decumbent pilosity and erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6a); tibiae with abundant subdecumbent hairs . . . . . 27


 * Gaster with sparse decumbent pilosity and erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6c, d); tibia without subdecumbent hairs . . . . . 29

27
return to couplet #26
 * Gaster unicolored, black . . . . . 28


 * Basal part of gaster yellow to yellowish red and always lighter than dark brown-black rest of gaster Bulgaria; Cyprus; Greece; Italy; Serbia; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) samius

28
return to couplet #37
 * Genae, antennal scape and tibiae with abundant erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 5j); head and gaster black, mesosoma red Middle East; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) festai


 * Genae, antennal scape and tibiae without erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6b); whole body unicolored, black Bulgaria; Greece; Serbia; Turkey . . . . . Campontus (Tanaemyrmex) ionius

29
return to couplet #26
 * Genae with erect hairs . . . . . 30


 * Genae without erect hairs . . . . . 31

30
return to couplet #29
 * Whole body dark brown or black Afghanistan; NW Africa; Caucasus; Middle East; Europe; Iran; Kazakhstan; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) aethiops


 * Whole body red, sometimes gaster brownish-black Greece; Iran; Serbia; Southern Transcaucasia; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) oertzeni

31
return to couplet #29
 * Ventral surface of head with erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6c) . . . . . 32


 * Ventral surface of head without erect hairs, only in major workers of C. sanctus 1–2 erect hairs present near foramen magnum (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6d) . . . . . 34

32
return to couplet #31
 * Whole body unicolored, brownish black to black Arabian Peninsula; Egypt; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah


 * At least lower parts of mesosoma lighter than head and gaster . . . . . 33

33
return to couplet #32
 * Whole gaster reddish brown to black Bulgaria; Egypt; France; Georgia; Gibraltar; Italy; Luxembourg; Portugal; Spain; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) sylvaticus


 * Basal part of gaster yellow or reddish yellow, rest of gaster black Greece; Iran; Israel; Saudi Arabia; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) baldaccii

34
return to couplet #31
 * Gaster unicolored, black Central Asia; Iran; Saudi Arabia; Sinai Peninsula; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes


 * Basal part of gaster yellow or reddish yellow, rest of gaster black . . . . . 35

35
return to couplet #34
 * Ventral surface of head always bare in major workers; head reddishbrown to brownish in minor workers . . . . . 36


 * Ventral surface of head bare or generally 1–2 erect hairs near foramen magnum in major workers; head yellow to reddish-yellow in minor workers Afghanistan; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Greece; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) sanctus

36
return to couplet #35
 * Mesosoma dorsum with more than 12 erect hairs; petiole dorsum steeply convex N. Africa; Kuwait; Oman; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Yemen . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) thoracicus


 * Mesosomal dorsum with at most 10 erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6e) ; petiole dorsum weakly convex or straight N Africa; Middle East; Iran; Oman; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) oasium

37
return to couplet #25
 * Genae and occipital corners with erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6f, h) . . . . . 38


 * Genae and occipital corners bare Southeastern Asia; Greece (?); Hawaiian Islands; Turkey (?) . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) variegatus

38
return to couplet #37
 * Extensor surface of tibiae and scape with abundant, subdecumbent and erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6f); whole body with abundant hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6g) Afghanistan; Armenia; Iran; Turkmenistan; Kyrgyzstan; Pamir; Tajikistan; Tibet; Transcaucasia; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) buddhae


 * Extensor surface of tibiae with only appressed pilosity; antennal scape bare (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6h); whole body with sparse erect hairs (Karaman and Aktac, 2013. Figure 6i) Iran; Iraq; Turkey . . . . . Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) shaqualavensis