Camponotus aegyptiacus Emery, 1915

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2020, A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography, Annales Zoologici 70 (4), pp. 533-560 : 537-539

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https://doi.org/ 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4433659

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scientific name

Camponotus aegyptiacus Emery, 1915
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Camponotus aegyptiacus Emery, 1915 View in CoL

Figure 3. Tapinoma simrothi , worker, A, body in profile B, body in dorsal view C, head in full-face view, CASENT0263927 (Estella Ortega), www.AntWeb.org.

( Fig. 5 View Figure 5 A–C)

Camponotus maculatus subsp. aegyptiacus Emery, 1915: 79 View in CoL (w.) Egypt. Palearctic.

Diagnosis. Worker. Like many species of the genus, C. aegyptiacus is a strongly polymorphic species; small workers are clear yellow; large workers are dark brown to black-brown. The species can be separated from other Arabian species and specifically from its congener C. maculatus ( Fabricius, 1782) by the presence of three yellow blotches on each side of the gaster that merge laterally; underside of head with few gular setae (6–10), whereas C. maculatus has two to three discretegastral blotches on each side and underside of head with numerous setae (more than 10) Previous records. Doha, 25°17.124’N, 51°31.86’E, 05.x.1982, 8 w; Doha, 25°17.124’N, 51°31.86’E, 03.iv. 1983, 6 w; GoogleMaps Al Zubarah , 25°58.794’N, 51°1.602’E, 11.iii. 1984, 15 w; GoogleMaps Al Khor, 25°40.824’N, 51°29.814’E, 02.iv. 1985, 7 w, (Abdo and Shaumer 1985). GoogleMaps

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Geographic distribution. This species was originally described from Egypt and is known from West, East and Northeast Africa ( Sharaf 2006) and the Arabian Peninsula, including KSA, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen ( Collingwood and Agosti 1996), and Qatar (Abdo and Shaumer 1985, Abdel-Dayem 2007).

Ecological and biological notes. This species is omnivorous ( Sharaf 2006), frequently foraging at night ( Collingwood 1985).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Camponotus

Loc

Camponotus aegyptiacus Emery, 1915

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2020
2020
Loc

Camponotus maculatus subsp. aegyptiacus

Emery 1915: 79
1915
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