Camponotus atlantis Forel, 1890

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Fisher, Brian L., Collingwood, Cedric A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2017, Ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): zoogeography, distribution and description of a new species, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (5 - 6), pp. 317-378 : 325

Camponotus atlantis Forel, 1890

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Camponotus rubripes r. atlantis Forel, 1890 : lxiii (s. w. q.) Tunisia. Palaearctic.

Diagnosis

The soldier caste of this species is easily identified by the yellow blotch over the first and second gastral tergites; head, mesosoma and gaster end dark brown; minor workers are completely yellow.

Geographic range

Camponotus atlantis was described from Tunisia and has been recorded from several countries in the Arabian Peninsula including KSA ( Collingwood 1985), Oman and Yemen ( Collingwood and Agosti 1996), and Socotra ( Collingwood et al. 2004).

Ecological and biological notes

Colonies of Camponotus atlantis are commonly found under rocks next to and under Acacia trees.

Figures

Figure 4. Camponotus atlantis. (a) Body in profile. (b) Head in full-face view, CASENT0746633, AntWeb.org, (Zach Lieberman). (c) distribution map, from Collingwood et al. (2004).