Camponotus lasiselene Wang & Wu, 1994

Subedi, I. P., Budha, P. B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L. & Yamane, S., 2021, First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), Zoodiversity 55 (4), pp. 279-284 : 281-282

Camponotus lasiselene Wang & Wu, 1994 (fig. 4)

M a t e r i a l s e x a m i n e d. Nepal: Kathmandu , Ranibari Community Forest [27.729444 N 85.3205555 E], 1310 m, pitfall collection, 13– 15.10.2019, 1 ♀ worker (IP Subedi, RP Pokhrel, S Subedi & A Subedi) (CDZMTU); idem, hand collection, 14.04.2021, 2 ♀ workers (IP Subedi, I Pandit & A Subedi) (CDZMTU) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Nepal (new record), China, Thailand, Vietnam.

T a x o n o m i c n o t e s. Our worker specimen has an opaque black body with extremely abundant whitish short hairs, brownish red mandibles, antennae and tarsus, square-shaped head, short, broad and dorsally margined alitrunk, pronotum with acute margin, two plier-shaped propodeal spines and large, cylindrical gaster. The specimen was identified as C. lasiselene based on the species description and key in Wang & Wu (1994). C. lasiselene is very close to Fig. 4. Camponotus lasiselene . C. selene in the color, shape and sculpture of the body but has abundant whitish erect hair on the body ( Wang & Wu, 1994).