Published May 28, 2021 | Version v1
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Camponotus ruber Emery 1925

  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability (SCVSA), University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11 / A, I- 43124 Parma, Italia.
  • 2. MTA-ELTE-MTM, Ecology Research Group, PÁzmÁny Péter sétÁny 1 C, H- 1117 Budapest, Hungary. & Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, AlkotmÁny út 2 - 4, H- 2163 VÁcrÁtót, Hungary.
  • 3. Via Michele Cipolla 106, I- 90123 Palermo, Italia.
  • 4. Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (DBGES), University of Catania, Via Androne 81, I- 95124 Catania, Italia.

Description

1. Camponotus ruber Emery 1925

This species was recorded so far from Egadi (Scupola, 2009) and Aeolian Islands (Schär et al., 2020). Previous records of C. sicheli Mayr 1866 from Sicily may all have to be attributed to C. ruber, but no localities were reported by Forel (1879) or any subsequent author (Poldi et al., 1995; Schifani et al., 2021a; see under C. sicheli). We confirm C. ruber at least from NW Sicily, a region that was particularly interested by Maghrebian faunal influences (Schifani et al., 2020).

Examined material (Fig. 2 a-d)

Palermoprovince:MontePellegrino, 38.1730, 13.3510, 390 m asl, Pinus halepensis artificial forest, 12.04.2016, E. Schifani legit, ESC; Monte Catalfano, 38.0973, 13.5264, 230 m asl, Ampelodesmos mauritanicus anthropogenic steppe, 03.06.2016, E. Schifani legit, ESC; Capo Gallo, 38.2125, 13.2918, 10 m asl, Ampelodesmos mauritanicus anthropogenic steppe, 03.10.2017, E. Schifani legit, ESC; Mondello, 38.1895, 13.3358, 60 m asl, Ampelodesmos mauritanicus anthropogenic steppe, 18.11.2017, E. Schifani legit, ESC.

Trapani province: Custonaci, photographed by Luigi Barraco (no specimens collected), 12.2007. Monte Cofano, 38.1128, 12.6714, 30 m asl, degraded phrygana, 16.05.2016, E. Schifani legit, ESC.

Notes

Published as part of Schifani, Enrico, Csősz, SÁndor, Viviano, Roberto & Alicata, Antonio, 2021, Ant diversity on the largest Mediterranean islands: on the presence or absence of 28 species in Sicily (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), pp. 55-70 in Natural History Sciences 8 (1) on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.4081/nhs.2021.532, http://zenodo.org/record/12753989

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2016-05-16
Verbatim event date
2016-05-16
Scientific name authorship
Emery
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Camponotus
Species
ruber
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Camponotus ruber Emery, 1925 sec. Schifani, Csősz, Viviano & Alicata, 2021