Camponotus riedeli Pisarski, 1971

Salata, Sebastian, Khalili-Moghadam, Arsalan & Borowiec, Lech, 2020, Review of the Camponotus samius complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Turano-Balkan region, with the description of a new species from Iran, Zootaxa 4763 (4), pp. 545-562 : 561

Camponotus riedeli Pisarski, 1971

Fig. 19

Camponotus festai subsp. riedeli Pisarski, 1971: 728 (s.w.).

Holotype major worker, Salahuddin ad Erbil, Iraq ( MZPW) [Holotype worker images examined, AntWeb, CASENT0917222, photos by Kate Martynova, available on AntWeb.org].

Diagnosis. Hind tibia and scape with decumbent to suberect pilosity and additional erect setae; gena with numerous erect setae; head, mesosoma and gaster brownish-black to black, legs in major and minor workers mostly brownish-black only coxa yellowish to yellowish brown, scape and first segment of funiculus black, remaining segments of funiculus yellowish; pilosity on gaster dense.

Distribution. Iraq ( Pisarski 1971, Radchenko 1996).

Biology. Camponotus riedeli is poorly known. Workers were collected on slopes of limestone hills ( Pisarski 1971).

Figures

FIGURES 19–21. 19—Camponotus riedeli Pisarski, major worker lateral (AntWeb CASENT0917222 photographed by Kate Martynova, scale bar = 2 mm). Camponotus ionius Emery, head in full-face view: 20—major worker, 21—minor worker (not to scale).