CAM PONOTUS {KARA VAIEVIA) TEXENS SP. N. AND 
C. (. K .) GOMBAKI SP. N. FROM MALAYSIA 
IN COMPARISON WITH THE OTHER KARA VAIEVIA 
SPECIES (FORMICIDAE: FORMICINAE)* 
By Klaus Dumpert 
Battelle-Institut, Abteilung Chemie und Okologie 
Am Romerhof 35, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main, 
Federal Republic of Germany 
Introduction 
Two weaving species of Camponotus, collected in a rain forest in 
Malaysia in 1984 (Maschwitz, 1985), have turned out to be new 
species of the subgenus Karavaievia. These are described below as 
Camponotus ( Karavaievia ) texens and C. (K.) gombaki and are 
compared with the other species of the subgenus Karavaievia Emery 
(1925). 
Materials and Methods 
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 Basel (Switzerland). Three workers of this species were 
used for classifiction from the Forel Collection in Geneva (Switzer- 
land) along with three workers and two dealate females of Campo- 
notus ( Karavaievia ) exsectus from the Emery Collection in Genoa 
(Italy). However, specimens of C. ( Karavaievia ) doliehoderoides 
were not available from either the Forel or Emery Collections. 
* Final copy of manuscript received by the editor October 14, 1985. 
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