Camponotus semirufus

Inhabits saxual and tamarix thickets, building nests in soil (Dlusskii et al. 1990).

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

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus (Myrmentoma) interjectus subsp. semirufus Emery, 1925a: 65.
 * [First available use of Camponotus lateralis subsp. interjectus var. semirufus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923: 243 (w.) UZBEKISTAN; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * Status as species: Tarbinsky, 1976: 163 (redescription); Dlussky, 1981a: 17; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 237; Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 137; Bolton, 1995b: 123; Radchenko, 1996b: 1197 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 707; Collingwood & Heatwole, 2000: 12; Schultz, R. et al. 2006: 203; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 69; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 29.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Collingwood C., and H. Heatwole. 2000. Ants from Northwestern China (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche 103 (1-2): 1-24.
 * Dlussky G. M., O. S. Soyunov, and S. I. Zabelin. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.
 * Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
 * Marikovsky P. I. 1979. Ants of the Semireche Desert. [In Russian.]. Alma Ata: Nauka, 263 pp.
 * 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.
 * Ran H., and S. Y. Zhou. 2011. Checklist of Chinese Ants: the Formicomorph Subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (I). Journal of Guangxi Normal University: Natural Science Edition. 29(3): 65-73.
 * Schultz, R., A. G. Radchenko, and B. Seifert. "A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 201-207.