Camponotus arcuatus

Distribution
This taxon was described from Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  arcuatus. Camponotus arcuatus Mayr, 1876: 63 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 217 (l.). Combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1914a: 266; in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1920b: 257. Current subspecies: nominal plus aesopus.

Description
Worker 5 - 8 mm Black, opaque, gaster, forehead in the major worker almost bronzed and glossy, mandibles, antennae and limbs castaneous or ferruginous; sparse pilosity scattered, gaster in the worker minor with plentiful adpressed white pubescence, antennae and feet without erect hairs; mandibles weakly curved, glossy, dispersed punctations; head and thorax very feebly and densely punctate, gaster feeble transverse coriaceous; clypeus scarcely keeled, the anterior moderately produced, the anterior margin arcuate, in the case of the major worker emarginate in the middle; thorax short, strongly convex above the propodeum angle, petiole with a rounded square node. Rockhampton (Museum Godeffroy)