Camponotus opaciventris Mayr, 1879

Subedi, I. P., Budha, P. B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L. & Yamane, S., 2021, First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), Zoodiversity 55 (4), pp. 279-284 : 281

Camponotus opaciventris Mayr, 1879 (fig. 2)

M a t e r i a l s e x a m i n e d. Nepal: Chitwan,

Maize Research Farm, Rampur [27.65397 N 84.35666

E], 175 m, hand collection, 09.03.2013, 1 ♀ worker

(IP Subedi) (CDZMTU); Dang, Chhilikot hill [28.1489

N 82.4010 E], 800 m, pitfall trap, 23.10.2019, 3 ♀

workers (K Chaudhary) (CDZMTU).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Nepal (new record), Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka.

T a x o n o m i c n o t e s. The worker has a robust body, coarse sculpture in the head and mesosoma; the pubescence of the gaster is short, sparse and much lighter in colour than C. sericeus , so that the extremely Fig. 2. Camponotus opaciventris . dense, very fine, thimble-like punctures are visible without removing hair. Our identification is based on the worker description in Mayr (1879), key in Bharti & Wachkoo (2014) and taxon discussion in Wachkoo & Akbar (2016). This species is very similar in size, shape and colour of the body, and pilosity (with protruding hairs) to C. sericeus ( Mayr, 1879) , but is different from the latter in the condition of pubescence on the body, especially on the gaster (see ‘Taxonomic notes’ under C. sericeus ).