Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah Emery
  Type location Egypt (Camponotus
oasium var fellah n. var., Emery, 1891b: 18; Camponotus
maculatus r oasium var fellah, Dalla Torre, 1893:
245, worker; Emery, 1908a: 194, soldier, queen & male; raised to
species Pisarski, 1971b: 728)  .
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 Emery's
(1891b) description is at  . Emery's (1908a) description is at  . Pisarski's (1971b) determination of name
is at  .
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.
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Egypt
records - in HNS as Camponotus
oasium var. fellah Dalla Torre. At Mokattam desert,
Cairo, Viehmeyer (1923). Emery (1925: 99) reported it from Egypt &
Syria. Menozzi (1929e: 128) reported numerous workers, collected in
Sinai, at Wadi Taraf, Wadi Feiran & Wadi Nasib by F S Bodenheimer.
Menozzi (1933b: 97) had Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. His full notes,
including extracts from his key, is at  .
Sharaf list - Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh, Kantara,
Cairo, Gebel Asfar, Wadi Firan (S.Sinai), Wadi Isla (S.Sinai), Siwa
oasis, Salloum, El-Tor (Finzi, 1936); Wadi Digla, Wadi El-Allaqi, Gebel
Elba, Port Said.
Mohamad thesis (1979) had - Suez road, 30.iv.1914,
8.ii.1925; Wadi Degla (Helwan), 7.ix.1923; Farsh El-Arab (Sinai),
ix.1926; Bir Tarfawy, 22.i.1928; Glymenopoulo, 25.v.1943; Wadi Allaqi
(South Aswan, Upper Egypt), i.1963 (Coll.Alf.). Wadi Farfor,
8.vi.1930; Gebel Elba, 25.i.1933 (Coll.Min.). Port Said,
2.Iix.1976; Alexandria, 28.viii.1978 (Coll.Ain.).
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 The
photomontage is
of
a major worker from Egypt;
collected at St Katherine's Protectorate, Sinai, 2010, by Amy Shepherd.
Other images can be
seen in the folder at -  .
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 The photomontage is of a
major worker from Israel, Hazeva, 8.vi.1991, collector A.
Unescu, courtesy of Armin
Ionescu, Tel Aviv University.
Other images can be seen in the folder at -
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 The
photomontage is
of
a minor worker from Egypt;
collected at St Katherine's Protectorate, Sinai, 2010, by Olivia Norfolk.
Other images can be
seen in the folders at -
and .
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 The photomontage is of a
minor worker from Israel, Ziquin, 22.i.1987, collector J
Kugler, courtesy of Armin
Ionescu, Tel Aviv University.
Other images can be seen in the folder at -
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