Review of the Camponotus kiesenwetteri group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Aegean with the description of a new species

Sebastian Salata; Ana Carolina Loss; Celal Karaman; Kadri Kiran; Lech Borowiec

doi:10.3897/zookeys.899.46933

Review of the Camponotus kiesenwetteri group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Aegean with the description of a new species

Zookeys. 2019 Dec 12:899:85-107. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.899.46933. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Sebastian Salata¹, Ana Carolina Loss^{1

2}, Celal Karaman³, Kadri Kiran³, Lech Borowiec⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences San Francisco United States of America.
² National Institute of Atlantic Forest (INMA), Santa Teresa, ES, Brazil National Institute of Atlantic Forest Santa Teresa Brazil.
³ Trakya University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Balkan Campus, Edirne, Turkey Trakya University Edirne Turkey.
⁴ Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland University of Wrocław Wrocław Poland.

Abstract

Based on recently collected material, the Camponotus kiesenwetteri group is redefined, and its members known from the Aegean region are diagnosed. Camponotus schulzi sp. nov. is described from İzmir Province, Turkey. Camponotus nadimi Tohmé, 1969 syn. nov. is proposed as a junior synonym of Camponotus libanicus André, 1881 and Camponotus kiesenwetteri cyprius Emery, 1920 syn. nov. as a junior synonym of Camponotus kiesenwetteri (Roger, 1859). A key to workers of species of the C. kiesenwetteri group is provided. Niche modeling analyses are used to account for species habitat suitability across the Aegean region.

Keywords: Myrmentoma; Aegean Region; carpenter ants; new synonym; niche modelling; taxonomy.

Sebastian Salata, Ana Carolina Loss, Celal Karaman, Kadri Kiran, Lech Borowiec.