Camponotus xerxes Forel, 1904

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2013, The ants (Hymenoptera: formicidae) of Rawdhat Khorim Nature Preserve, Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, Zootaxa 3709 (6), pp. 565-580 : 570

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.6.6

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6422550

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scientific name

Camponotus xerxes Forel, 1904
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Camponotus xerxes Forel, 1904

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Camponotus maculatus xerxes Forel, 1904: 424 . Raised to species: Pisarski, 1967: 414.

This species was reported from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates ( UAE) and Oman ( Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood et al. 2011). Foragers are common from March to October with a peak in September. Workers were commonly found foraging on C. procera .

The high degree of polymorphism and the large intra- and interspecific variation among the species of Camponotus make determinations often difficult. Camponotus xerxes is closely related to C. fellah Dallah Torre , but can be distinguished by the absence of erect setae on the ventral head surface, whereas in C. fellah there are 1– 10 setae ( Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Camponotus

Loc

Camponotus xerxes Forel, 1904

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2013
2013
Loc

Camponotus maculatus xerxes

Pisarski, B. 1967: 414
Forel, A. 1904: 424
1904
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