Camponotus fallax species group

Based on Radchenko 1997.

Species
Members of the subgenus Myrmentoma


 * Camponotus fallax
 * Camponotus himalayanus
 * Camponotus jejuensis
 * Camponotus keihitoi
 * Camponotus kolthoffi
 * Camponotus lameerei
 * Camponotus quadrinotatus
 * Camponotus tergestinus
 * Camponotus truebi
 * Camponotus wroughtonii

Species Identification
There is no key for the group but some fallax group species are included in the following Camponoutus keys:


 * Key to Camponotus of Israel
 * Key to Camponotus of Turkey
 * Key to Camponotus of Japan

Group Diagnosis
Small to moderate body size, regularly arched mesosoma sometimes with shallow concavity between mesonotum and propodeum, straight to angular dorsal surface of propodeum, shiny surface of mesosoma and gaster, and short and never dense pubescence hairs on gaster.

Distribution
Southern-European, Central-Middle Asian, and Far Eastern or, more generally, from East to West across the southern Palaearctic.

Radchencko subdivided the fallax group into regional complexes.

European
Camponotus fallax - Middle, Southern, and Eastern Europe as far as the Urals; Camponotus tergestinus - Italy and the Balkans.

Camponotus quadrinotatus complex
Southern Far East to the Taiwan Islands / Eastern Palaearctic - ''Camponotus quadrinotatus, C. keihitoi. C. jejuensis, and C. truebi''

Camponotus himalayans complex
mountains of Middle Asia - Camponotus himalayans, C. kolthoffi, and C. wroughtoni

Additional Resources

 * Camponotus
 * Myrmentoma