taxonID	type	description	language	source
AD60A932735D7C003CE6FB49FE78F8E0.taxon	description	D i s t r i b u t i o n. Nepal (new record), India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. T a x o n o m i c n o t e s. This species is diagnosed by the red thorax and distinct red blotch on either side of the first gastral segment (Collingwood, 1962). Our worker specimens from Nepal well agree with the redescription of the species in Wachkoo (2015), and the colour pattern seems constant in Nepalese specimens. This species closely resembles C. wasmanni but can be diagnosed by the presence of reddish mesosoma, petiole and first gastral tergite. Fig. 1. Camponotus mutilarius.	en	Subedi, I. P., Budha, P. B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L., Yamane, S. (2021): First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoodiversity 55 (4): 279-284, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2021.04.279, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.04.279
AD60A932735E7C033CEEFF50FE9FFCB2.taxon	description	Maize Research Farm, Rampur [27.65397 N 84.35666 E], 175 m, hand collection, 09.03.2013, 1 ♀ worker (IP Subedi) (CDZMTU); Dang, Chhilikot hill [28.1489 N 82.4010 E], 800 m, pitfall trap, 23.10.2019, 3 ♀ workers (K Chaudhary) (CDZMTU). D i s t r i b u t i o n. Nepal (new record), Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka. T a x o n o m i c n o t e s. The worker has a robust body, coarse sculpture in the head and mesosoma; the pubescence of the gaster is short, sparse and much lighter in colour than C. sericeus, so that the extremely Fig. 2. Camponotus opaciventris. dense, very fine, thimble-like punctures are visible without removing hair. Our identification is based on the worker description in Mayr (1879), key in Bharti & Wachkoo (2014) and taxon discussion in Wachkoo & Akbar (2016). This species is very similar in size, shape and colour of the body, and pilosity (with protruding hairs) to C. sericeus (Mayr, 1879), but is different from the latter in the condition of pubescence on the body, especially on the gaster (see ‘ Taxonomic notes’ under C. sericeus).	en	Subedi, I. P., Budha, P. B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L., Yamane, S. (2021): First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoodiversity 55 (4): 279-284, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2021.04.279, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.04.279
AD60A932735E7C033CEEFC75FB20F9AC.taxon	materials_examined	Materials examined. Nepal: Sarlahi, Sagarnath [26.99428 N 85.67252 E], 115 m, Eucalyptus camaldulensis plantation, 21.10.2020, 2 ♀ workers (B Shrestha & T Sherpa); Tanahun, Ratanpur [28.08777 N 84.39275 E], 859 m, Champ (Magnolia champaca) plantation, 29.11.2020, 1 ♀ worker (PB Budha & P Shrestha). D i s t r i b u t i o n. Nepal (new record), India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, Ivory coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Congo, Zaire, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Fig. 3. Camponotus sericeus. Botswana, Namibia, South Africa. T a x o n o m i c n o t e s. The worker has a robust body, coarse sculpture on the head and mesosoma; the gaster is covered by thick, apprised, golden mossy pubescence, so that cuticular sculpture is not visible without removing hair. We identified our materials as C. sericeus based on the key in Ionescu-Hirsch (2009) and taxon discussion in Wachkoo & Akbar (2016). This species closely resembles C. opaciventris but can be distinguished from the latter by the gaster having a dense layer of pubescence (Wachkoo & Akbar, 2016).	en	Subedi, I. P., Budha, P. B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L., Yamane, S. (2021): First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoodiversity 55 (4): 279-284, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2021.04.279, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.04.279
AD60A932735E7C023CEEF960FBE7FD7C.taxon	description	D i s t r i b u t i o n. Nepal (new record), China, Thailand, Vietnam. T a x o n o m i c n o t e s. Our worker specimen has an opaque black body with extremely abundant whitish short hairs, brownish red mandibles, antennae and tarsus, square-shaped head, short, broad and dorsally margined alitrunk, pronotum with acute margin, two plier-shaped propodeal spines and large, cylindrical gaster. The specimen was identified as C. lasiselene based on the species description and key in Wang & Wu (1994). C. lasiselene is very close to Fig. 4. Camponotus lasiselene. C. selene in the color, shape and sculpture of the body but has abundant whitish erect hair on the body (Wang & Wu, 1994).	en	Subedi, I. P., Budha, P. B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L., Yamane, S. (2021): First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoodiversity 55 (4): 279-284, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2021.04.279, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.04.279
AD60A932735F7C053EF7FD30FE81FDFF.taxon	description	Tribhuvan University Campus, Kirtipur [27.68250 N 85.284166 E], 1320 m, pitfall collection, 9 - 11.05.2019, 2 ♀ workers (IP Subedi & S Adhikari) (CDZMTU); Sundarijal forest, Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park [27.77139 N 85.42639 E], 1600 m, hand collection, 10.10.2020, 2 ♀ workers (IP Subedi) (CDZMTU). D i s t r i b u t i o n. Nepal (new record), India, China, Myanmar. T a x o n o m i c n o t e s. Our worker specimens have an opaque black body with few hairs, square-shaped head, short, Fig. 5. Camponotus selene. broad and dorsally margined alitrunk, pronotum with acute margin, two plier- shaped propodeal spines and large, broad, cylindrical gaster. Our material was identified as C. selene based on the key in Wang & Wu (1994). It is closely related to C. lasiselene in color, shape and sculpture but has sparsely distributed short hair.	en	Subedi, I. P., Budha, P. B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L., Yamane, S. (2021): First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoodiversity 55 (4): 279-284, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2021.04.279, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.04.279
AD60A932735F7C053EF7FD30FE81FDFF.taxon	description	The ant subgenus Orthonotomyrmex along with its five species, namely Camponotus mutilarius, C. opaciventris, C. sericeus, C. lasiselene and C. selene are recorded for the first time from Nepal. With the addition of these five species, the number of Camponotus species known from Nepal raises to 13. However, many more species are expected to be recorded with the accomplishment of future field surveys in the country. Authors acknowledge the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation (835 / 075 - 76 eco 75, 713 / 076 - 77 eco 65) and Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park office (311 / 075 - 76, 247 / 2076 - 77) for providing ant collection permission inside the national park. We are thankful to A. Subedi, I Pandit, T Sherpa, RP Pokhrel, K Chaudhary, S Subedi, P Shrestha, and B Shrestha for assisting in collection of ants during our surveys in different sites.	en	Subedi, I. P., Budha, P. B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L., Yamane, S. (2021): First Record Of The Ant Subgenus Orthonotomyrmex Of The Genus Camponotus From Nepal (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoodiversity 55 (4): 279-284, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2021.04.279, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.04.279
