Camponotus thoracicus (Fabricius, 1804)

Plates 88–89

Specimens examined: Ruwais, 25.iii.1995, leg. D. Agosti. Al-Wathba Wetland Reserve, 14.iii.2005, CAC.

Distribution: North African species, first recorded from the UAE (Baynunah) by Collingwood & Agosti (1996). In the Arabian Peninsula also known from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen.