Camponotus claripes nudimalis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  nudimalis. Camponotus claripes var. nudimalis Forel, 1913g: 191 (s.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1925b: 110. Currently subspecies of claripes: Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 112.

Description
I received at the time from M.Michaelsen from Bridgetown, Western Australia a worker major which I had assigned to claripes. But in reality it constitutes a different variety which is distinguished by its extremely sparse pilosity, absolutely absent on the cheeks, and also by the pits on its clypeus which are transformed into oblique long coarse grooves. These grooves are very distinct. The insect is very shiny with the gaster a dark brown, the head and the thorax a little yellowish light brown and the limbs yellowish.