Camponotus oasium Forel 1890
Creators: name: Sharaf, Mostafa R.
name: Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.
name: Mohamed, Amr A.
name: Fisher, Brian L.
name: Aldawood, Abdulrahman S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Camponotus
Camponotus oasium

description: <i>Camponotus oasium</i> Forel, 1890 (Fig. 6 A–C) <i>Camponotus rubripes</i> r. <i>oasium</i> Forel, 1890: lxv (s.w.q.) Algeria. Palearctic. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>. Worker.</b> Underside of head with one or two setae; mesosomal dorsum with about ten erect setae; dorsum of petiole steeply rounded; first gaster tergite with basal two thirds testaceous; large workers with head, mesosoma, and dorsum dark brown to black, head brown, lower half of mesosoma usually yellow and distinctly paler than mesosomal dorsum, gaster and appendages yellow; small workers uniform yellow with end of gaster brown. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Qatar, Doha, Al-Dohuil, 14.iii.2005, 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 4w (KSMA). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> A species described from Algeria and distributed in the west Africa (Benin, Mali, Niger, Senegal), Horn of Africa (Ethiopia), and North Africa [Algeria, Egypt (Sharaf 2006)]; eastwardly from Arabian Peninsula to Afghanistan and north to Turkey (Karaman and Aktaç 2013) and Central Asia [Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan (Radchenko 1997a)]. In the Arabian Peninsula, it is recorded from the UAE (Collingwood <i>et al.</i> 2011), KSA, Oman (Collingwood 1985). It is recorded for the first time from Qatar. <b> <i>Ecological and biological notes</i>.</b> This species was collected from a tamarisk tree, <i>Tamarix nilotica</i> (Ehrenb.) Bunge, in the Nile Delta (Egypt) and was observed attending the membracids (Sharaf 2006).
description: Published as part of <i>Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. &amp; Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2020, A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography, pp. 533-560 in Annales Zoologici 70 (4)</i> on page 539, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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