Camponotus (Kara Vaievia) Texens Sp. N. and C. (K.) Gombaki Sp. N. From Malaysia in Comparison with the Other Karavaievia Species (Formicidae: Formicinae)

The two colonies of Camponotus texens were found by U. Maschwitz: one of the Gombak Valley, about 27 km north of Kuala Lumpur, and the other one in the region of Kuantan, on the east coast of Malaysia. Of C. gombaki, only one colony was discovered in the Gombak Valley. Twenty workers of each of the colonies were used for the descriptions that follow. The description of the sexuals for C. texens was based on 5 males from the colony of Kuantan and 5 females from the Gombak Valley. Only 5 females, but no males, were available for C. gombaki. One worker of Camponotus (Karavaievia) overbecki was made available to the author by Dr. Baroni Urbani from the Santschi Collection in Base1 (Switzerland). Three workers of this species were used for classifiction from the Fore1 Collection in Geneva (Switzerland) along with three workers and two dealate females of Camponotus (Karavaievia) exsectus from the Emery Collection in Genoa (Italy). However, specimens of C. (Karavaievia) dolichoderoides were not available from either the Fore1 or Emery Collections.