Camponotus fellah Dalla Torre, 1893

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2024, Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44), pp. 1705-1786 : 1717

Camponotus fellah Dalla Torre, 1893

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Camponotus oasium var. fellah Dalla Torre, 1893, p. 245 (s.w.) Egypt, Syria, Eritrea.

Palaearctic.

Diagnosis

Soldier. Brown to dark brown with lower part of mesosoma and legs yellow; underside of head with few sparse setae; hind tibia with a row of strong bristles ventrally, small workers with 1–2, soldiers may have up to 7; few scattered setae on body dorsum, one pair on pronotum, one on propodeum, two on petiole dorsum, and few pairs of cephalic and gastral tergites; general appearance dull.

Material examined. One site: 10.

Geographic range. This species is widely distributed in numerous countries of the Middle East, including Syria and Lebanon ( Tohmé and Tohmé 2014), Israel ( Ionescu-Hirsch 2009), Jordan, Iraq and Iran ( Paknia et al. 2008), and Egypt ( Sharaf 2006), and is widespread on the Arabian Peninsula ( Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996; Sharaf et al. 2018b).

Ecology and biology. This species nests in the ground under stones and feeds on dead insects (Sharaf, unpublished data).

Figures

Figure 7. Camponotus fellah. Worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1041917, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map.