Camponotus fallax (Nylander, 1856)

Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Pfeiffer, M., 2010, New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran., Asian Myrmecology 3, pp. 29-38 : 31

publication ID

23045

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6195651

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AB31B4F7-3DF0-13E3-4AD8-02A5F341BF48

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scientific name

Camponotus fallax (Nylander, 1856)
status

 

Camponotus fallax (Nylander, 1856) View in CoL View at ENA

Material: 4?, Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forest ecoregion, Gorgan , urban area (~ 36°50'23''N, 54°26'19''E), ~142 m asl, 1.IV2006, leg Omid Paknia GoogleMaps .

Remarks: the species is distributed in Europe (northwards to southern Sweden), the Caucasus, Anatolia and northwestern Kazakhstan, and also reported from the southern part of western Siberia. Iran is at the southeasternmost edge of the known distribution of this species, that inhabits mainly light and dry deciduous and mixed forests, and often occurs in old parks and orchards. It nests in dead parts of living trees or in wooden constructions (Radchenko 1997c; Czechowski et al. 2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Camponotus

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