The Ants of Africa
Genus Camponotus subgenus Tanaemyrmex
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah Emery

maculatus species-group
TL 8-10-12 mm plus; alitrunk profile convex in a smooth elongated curve, propodeal declivity not or poorly separable from dorsum, if the latter always much shorter than dorsum; petiole scale of major cuneiform, with convex anterior face and quite sharp dorsal margin; mostly bicoloured with alitrunk lighter and distinct light areas on gaster; dimorphic (?) minors with head narrowed posteriorly but not dramatically so and without any "neck".

{Camponotus fellah}

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Egypt (Camponotus maculatus r oasium var fellah n. var., Emery, 1891b: 18; Camponotus oasium var fellah, Dalla Torre, 1893: 245, worker; Emery, 1908a: 194, soldier, queen & male; raised to species Pisarski, 1971b: 728) .

Emery's (1891b) description is at {original description}. Emery's (1908a) description is at {original description}. Pisarski's (1971b) determination of name is at {original description}.

Emery (1891b) noted specimens from Assab, Eritrea among those in his first description of the species. Forel (1910c) reported a worker from Western Ethiopia, collected by A Ilg. Viehmeyer (1923) reported specimens from Sudan, at Port Sudan, collected by H Werner & R Ebner .

Menozzi (1933b: 97) had Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. His full notes, including extracts from his key, is at {original description}.

Crawley (1920: 178) noted a single worker from "Mesopotamia" or "North-West Persia" that was "probably var. oasium or possibly var. fellah but impossible to determine without a major worker". Pisarski's report was of specimens from Baghdad, 4 workers and 2 males, from palm groves and waste land on the edges of the Tigris River.

{Camponotus fellah}The photomontage of a major worker is from Tel Aviv, Israel, photos taken by Merva Vonshak and courtesy of Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University.

{Camponotus fellah}The photomontage is of a major worker from Tel Aviv, Israel, courtesy of Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University. Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

{Camponotus fellah minor}The photomontage of a minor worker is from Tel Aviv, Israel, courtesy of Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University.
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