Camponotus xerxes FOREL, 1904

Ghahari, Hassan, Sharaf, Mostafar R., Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. & Collingwood, Cedric Alex, 2015, A contribution to the study of the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Eastern Iran, Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2), pp. 341-359 : 344

Camponotus xerxes FOREL, 1904

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Material examined: Kerman Province, Bam , 29°04'N 58°21'E, (2), April 2010. Handcollecting. Sistan & Baluchestan Province, Zahedan , 29°29'N 60°15'E, (1), May 2011. Pitfall traps .

Iranian records: East Azerbaijan ( Samin et al. 2011), Kermanshah, Kordestan ( Ghahari & Collingwood 2013), Khuzestan ( Dezhakam & Soleyman Nejadiyan 2000; Alizadeh et al. 2012; Mossadegh 2012), Mazandaran ( Sakenin Chelav et al. 2008b; Ghahari et al. 2008, 2009, 2010b), northern Iran ( Forel 1904; Ardeh 1994; Radchenko 1996, 1997).

Distribution: Arabian Peninsula ( COLLINGWOOD 1985; COLLINGWOOD & AGOSTI 1996; COLLINGWOOD et al. 2011), Sinai Peninsula ( SHARAF 2006), Central Asia ( RADCHENKO 1997), Israel ( IONESCU-HIRSCH 2009) and Turkey ( KARAMAN & AKTAC 2013).