Camponotus boghossiani

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

Worker
Salata and Borowiec 2018b. Scale bar = 1 mm. Photo L. Borowiec.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus boghossiani Forel, 1911d: 357 (s.w.) TURKEY.
 * Combination in C. (Orthonotomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 273;
 * combination in C. (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1925b: 121.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 121; Bolton, 1995b: 89; Radchenko, 1996b: 1197 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 705; Karaman, C. et al. 2011: 185; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 472; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 6; Karaman, C. & Aktaç, 2013: 50 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 27 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 136; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2018: 4; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 7; Salata, Loss, et al. 2019: 91.
 * Senior synonym of stenotica: Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 7; Salata, Loss, et al. 2019: 91.
 * angustatus. Camponotus kiesenwetteri r. angustatus Forel, 1889: 261 (w.) GREECE.
 * [Junior secondary homonym of Formica angustata Latreille, 1798: 34.]
 * Subspecies of kiesenwetteri: Emery, 1896d 376 (in list).
 * Replacement name: Camponotus boghossiani var. stenotica Emery, 1915h: 7.
 * stenotica. Camponotus boghossiani var. stenotica Emery, 1915h: 7 (in text).
 * Replacement name for Camponotus kiesenwetteri angustatus Forel, 1889: 261. [Junior secondary homonym of Formica angustata Latreille, 1798: 34.]
 * Subspecies of boghossiani: Emery, 1925b: 121; Bolton, 1995b: 125; Legakis, 2011: 33.
 * Junior synonym of boghossiani: Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 7; Salata, Loss, et al. 2019: 91.

Type Material
Salata and Borowiec (2018) - C. boghossiani, syntype (w): Sp. C. Boghossiani; Forel; Typus; C. Boghossiani; type Forel, ….; dans bois (Forel); S. G. Orthonofominnese; G. Camponotus; Mayr; Coll. A. Forel; ANTWEB; CASENT0910435 ; C. stenoticus, syntype (w): C. boghossiani; For.; var. stenotica; Em.; C. kiesenwetteri; it. angustulus; Forel; Creta (Cecconi)| Rettimo Monastiriou; ANTWEB; CASENT0905396.

Taxonomic Notes
Camponotus kiesenwetteri angustatus: The taxon has been described from Samos. There are no types in the Forel collection in and the original description does not allow an identification to the species level (Seifert, 2019).

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.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2012. Ants of Greece - Checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 23(4): 461-563.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2017. Ants of the Peloponnese, Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Polish Journal of Entomology 86: 193-236.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2018. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Samos Island, Greece. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 27: 1-13.
 * Czechowski W., A. Radchenko, W. Czechowska and K. Vepsäläinen. 2012. The ants of Poland with reference to the myrmecofauna of Europe. Fauna Poloniae 4. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 1-496 pp
 * Forel A. 1911. Fourmis nouvelles ou intéressantes. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 47: 331-400.
 * Karaman C., N. Aktac, and K. Kiran. 2009. Ants of the genus CamponotusMayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Kaz Mountains, Turkey, with descriptions of sexuals of Camponotus candiotes Emery, 1894 and Camponotus ionius Emery, 1920. Tubitak 35(2): 183-197.
 * Salata S., A. C. Loss, C. Karaman, K. Kiran, and L. Borowiec. 2019. Review of the Camponotus kiesenwetteri group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Aegean with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 899: 85-107.
 * Salata S., and L Borowiec. 2017. Species of Tetramorium semilaeve complex from Balkans and western Turkey, with description of two new species of (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 62:279–313.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2018. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 27: 1-51.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2019. Preliminary division of not socially parasitic Greek Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with a description of three new species. ZooKeys 877: 81-131.