Camponotus gouldianus

Distribution
This taxon was described from Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  gouldianus. Camponotus (Myrmophyma) gouldianus Forel, 1922: 100 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Shattuck & McArthur, 2002: 73 (s.).

Description
Worker minor. Length: about 8mm. A relative of cinereus Mayr. Mandibles strongly curved, short, glossy and shiny, with widely spaced points, armed with 6 teeth. Head without the mandibles 1.5 times longer than wide, sides convex almost parallel; almost as wide at the front as behind. Behind the eyes, which are small but very convex, and situated at the posterior third of the sides, the edges of the head form a simple posterior convexity without trace of an angle and directly rejoin the occipital articulation. Clypeus careened with a short anterior lobe. Frontal carinae long and as close to each other at the front as at the back, but distant in the middle by a concavity. Scapes surpass the occiput by 2.5 times their length. Promesonotum is very convex like a camels back; the basal face is much longer than the declivity. Pronotum is nearly as long as the mesonotum, but almost not convex. The node on the petiole is very long (thick), longer towards its base than its height and width, a little inclined to the front; summit rounded. Limbs long; tibias without barbs. The whole body and limbs are sub opaque, very finely and densely reticulate punctate, covered with erect hairs which are reddish, quite short (a little oblique on the tibias) and the pubescence is more or less abundant, with a grayish aspect. Black, limbs, antennae and the border of the mandibles dark russet red. Sealake, Victoria, Australia per M Gould. In my sub genera described in 1914, I was very wrong to give ephippium as a type of the sub genus Myrmecameleus without knowing its worker major which has been revealed since then to be a Myrmophyma. I admit guilt in this respect and recognize at the same time with M Emery C. capito as a type of Mymophyma but is that sufficient reason to suppress the sub genus Myrmocameleus relating to those of the Australian species of which the vertex is not at all renfle in the case of the major worker. I permit to allow myself to doubt this and maintain my sub genus Myrmocameleus giving to it the type C. gambeyi Emery of which the worker major is known. As for C. gouldianus let us wait for the worker major to be discovered before we pronounce on this.