Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Camponotus
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes Forel

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes Forel

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Iran (Camponotus maculatus r. Xerxes, Forel, 1904f: 424) - see below.
Junior synonym irakensis (Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) compressus ssp. irakensis n. ssp., Menozzi, 1927: 117, illustrated, synonymy by Radchenko, 1997c: 1201, illustrated) Basra, Schmidt - no images on Antweb (July 2015).


Camponotus xerxesForel's (1904e) description is at - {original description}. He refers to the earlier (1904b) description which is at - {original description}. Menozzi's (1927c) description of irakensis is at - {original description}.


{Camponotus xerxes major}The photomontage of a major worker, listed by Forel (1904b) but possibly differing from the type "Persian (Persane)" form, which he gave as having the alitrunk and even the anterior gaster entirely black, is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905292. The head proportions of the Nafisi major worker almost exactly matches the Menozzi head but both have a lower CI (proportionally wider head) than the Antweb major.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
R Nafisi
10
15.x.2012
36°42'N
57°25'E
3521 ft
Field
Minor worker
2
{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
R Nafisi
11
15.x.2012
36°42'N
57°25'E
3521 ft
Field
Major worker
1
{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Safariyan
05
4.ii.2014
36.10902°N
47.55669°E
Bijar Protected area
1533 m
pitfall trap; wayside
major & media
2
{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
E Aram
04.01
10.x.2012
37.22°N
48.16°E
Dayukandi
1540 m
hand collected, village riverside
major worker

{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
E Aram
06
21.vii.2012
37.20°N
48.17°E
Kamardaraq
1175 m
hand collected, mountain on soil
major worker

{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
E Aram
09
15.iv.2012
37.20°N
48.17°E
Kamardaraq
1175 m
hand collected, village under rock
major worker

{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Seiri
09

male ?

{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Seiri
10b

major worker

{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Seiri
11

media and minima workers

{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Seiri
12a

minor worker

{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
Torabi
01
27.vi.2014
29.71700°N
52.44383°E
1703 m
Beheshti, Shiraz
hand collected
ground in field
12:01 h; major worker
1
{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Heidary
02.1
27.vi.2013
27.17°N
53.25°E
405 m
Lavarekhasht
hand collected
soil in garden
minor worker
1
{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
R Afshari
05

20.viii.2014
31.25°N
51.33°E
2493 m
Semirom, Isfahan
hand collected
city, on wall
1500h
1
{album}
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) xerxes
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Borjali
36 & 38

15.iv.2014
35°4844°N
51°1033°E
1850 m
lborz
hand collected
montane, on ground, 1530h
major & minor workers
2
{album}

{Camponotus xerxes major}The photomontage is of a major worker from Iran; collector Reyhane Nafisi (11).


{Camponotus xerxes minor}The photomontage is of a minor worker from Iran; collector R Nafisi (10).

{Camponotus xerxes major}The photomontage is of a major worker from Iran; collector M Safariyan (05).

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