Camponotus arabicus
Collingwood, 1985
valid
Camponotus arabicus
Collingwood, 1985:
278, figs. 67, 72, 74 (s.w.q.)
SAUDI ARABIA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype major worker. Type localities: holotype + paratypes Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Agricultural Centre, 30.i.1980 (A.S. Talhouk), Riyadh Agricultural Centre, 19.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: NHMB (probably also in WMLC).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype major and minor workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated). Type localities: holotype + paratypes Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Agricultural Centre, 30.i.1980 (A.S. Talhouk), Riyadh Agricultural Centre, 19.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depository: NHMB (probably also in WMLC).
Type notes:
Collingwood does not give specific data that isolates the holotype locality.
- Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Bolton, 1995b: 86.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 86; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 372; Borowiec, 2014: 26.
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
- Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF