Camponotus ruber Emery 1925

Schifani, Enrico, Csősz, SÁndor, Viviano, Roberto & Alicata, Antonio, 2021, Ant diversity on the largest Mediterranean islands: on the presence or absence of 28 species in Sicily (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), Natural History Sciences 8 (1), pp. 55-70 : 56-57

1. Camponotus ruber Emery 1925

This species was recorded so far from Egadi (Scupola, 2009) and Aeolian Islands (Schär et al., 2020). Previous records of C. sicheli Mayr 1866 from Sicily may all have to be attributed to C. ruber , but no localities were reported by Forel (1879) or any subsequent author (Poldi et al., 1995; Schifani et al., 2021a; see under C. sicheli ). We confirm C. ruber at least from NW Sicily, a region that was particularly interested by Maghrebian faunal influences (Schifani et al., 2020).

Examined material ( Fig. 2 a-d)

Palermoprovince:MontePellegrino, 38.1730, 13.3510, 390 m asl, Pinus halepensis artificial forest, 12.04.2016, E. Schifani legit, ESC; Monte Catalfano, 38.0973, 13.5264, 230 m asl, Ampelodesmos mauritanicus anthropogenic steppe, 03.06.2016, E. Schifani legit, ESC; Capo Gallo, 38.2125, 13.2918, 10 m asl, Ampelodesmos mauritanicus anthropogenic steppe, 03.10.2017, E. Schifani legit, ESC; Mondello, 38.1895, 13.3358, 60 m asl, Ampelodesmos mauritanicus anthropogenic steppe, 18.11.2017, E. Schifani legit, ESC.

Trapani province : Custonaci , photographed by Luigi Barraco (no specimens collected), 12.2007. Monte Cofano, 38.1128, 12.6714, 30 m asl, degraded phrygana, 16.05.2016, E. Schifani legit, ESC .

Figures

Fig. 2 - a-d) Camponotus ruber. a-b) major worker / operaia maggiore; c-d) minor worker / operaia minore. Monte Pellegrino. Scale bar / scala grafica: 1 mm (ESC). e-f) Lasius myops. Worker / operaia. Pineta di Linguaglossa.Scale bar / scala grafica: 0.5 mm (AAC). g-h) Lasius platythorax. Worker / operaia. Monte Cofano. Scale bar / scala grafica: 0.5 mm (AAC).