Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) oertzeni Forel
 Iran list Type location Greece (Camponotus rubripes Drury race Oertzeni n. stirps, Forel 1889:
263; major & minor workers; raised to species by Dalla Torre, 1893:
246, name only, as oertzenii For.;
current status from Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 58, list only)
Samos and
Marathokampos, Oertzen - see below
junior synonyms/subspecies
jaliensis (Camponotus rubripes Drury race Oertzeni n. stirps var. Jaliensis n. v., Forel 1889:
264; major & minor workers) from Greece, Jali Island,
Sporaden - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0910192
kappariensis (Camponotus rubripes Drury race Oertzeni n. stirps var. Kappariensis n. v., Forel 1889:
264; major & minor workers) from Greece,
Kappari Island, Sporaden - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0910196
andrius (Camponotus rubripes Drury race Oertzeni n. stirps var. Andrius n. v., Forel 1889:
265; major & minor workers) from Greece, Andros Island -
see https://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0910194
karawajewi (Camponotus
(Tanaemyrmex) maculatus F. subsp. aethiops Latr. var. clara nov., Karavaiev, 1926c: 190,
major & minor workers & queen; name revised to C. karawajewi Radtschenko nom.
n. by Radchenko [Radtschenko] 1997e: in key; in Russian, synonymised
under oertzeni by Radchenko,
1997d: 809) Azerbaijan;
Caucasus, Bez. Lenkoran (Gouv. Baku), 27.vii.1906, Schelkownikow
[Lankaran (Lenkoran) is a district in the south) - no images on Antweb
(September 2015).
Note: Dalla Torre (1893: 246) also listed varieties andrius and jailensis from the one Forel (1889:
293 ff) text. Antweb/Antbase wrongly attributes synonymy to Dalla Torre
who simply listed "varieties"; it also lists Camponotus andrius
as a species, attributing the separation to Radchenko (1997d: 807). Camponotus jaliensis as a distinct
species is attributed to Pisarski (1971a: 672; also Agosti &
Collingwood (1987a: 58, list only)
Forel gave major TL 7 mm, HW 1.9, HL 2.1, SL 1.7; minor
TL 4.3 mm. The three varieties were slightly larger, andrius TL 5.5-8.4 mm, jaliensis TL 4.3-7.5 mm, and kappariensis TL 5.2-8.4 mm.
Examination of the type images, listed above, shows no
obvious differences between the type oertzeni
and the other three Forel forms. It has to be suggested that
there is only the one species, separable perhaps by slight variations
in colour although the typical Antweb magenta tint does not help.
The lack of any images of karawajewi (clara) precludes comparison and the
thinking in the Radchenko (1997d) paper is unavailable and in Russian.
[Radchenko, A. G. 1997D. Review of ants of the subgenera Tanaemyrmex, Colobopsis, Myrmamblis, Myrmosericus, Orthonotomyrmex and Paramyrmamblis of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera,
Formicidae) in the Asian Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76:806-815.
[1997-07] 132073]. That paper post-dates Radchenko's 1996 key
(1997 HNS8587).
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The
photomontage of the type major worker is
collated from 
The
photomontage of the type minor worker is
collated from