Camponotus sophiae

Only known from the type locality in Phang-nga Province, Thailand.

Identification
Minor worker: Body chiefly light brown; head tending to orange red; gaster ventrally infuscated. Trunk, including pronotum with dense microreticulation, matt. Clypeus basally slightly emarginated and with distinct median impression of about one third of length. Flagellum long, antennomere 7 almost three times as long as wide. Propodeum with straight dorsal outline.

Major worker and gyne unknown.

This species is similar in colour to Camponotus weiserti from the same locality. It differs by the matt, densely reticulated pronotum, a longer median impression at the base of the clypeus, and in a longer flagellum: antennomere 7 is about three times as long as wide, while hardly more than twice as long in C. weiserti.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: Thailand.

Nomenclature

 *  sophiae. Camponotus (Myrmamblys) sophiae Zettel & Balàka, 2018: 149, figs. 36-39 (w.) THAILAND.

Type Material

 * Holotype (minor worker #413; NHMW) from Thailand, Phang-nga Province, Khao Lak N.P., Thone Chong Fa Falls, N 8°40', E 98°18', 100–300 m a.s.l., leg. A. Schulz & K. Vock, #T11.
 * Paratypes (NHMW): 1 minor worker (#418), same label data.