Camponotus punctiventris

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  punctiventris. Camponotus (Myrmogonia) punctiventris Emery, 1920c: 31 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1925b: 112.

Description
Worker minor. Black; mandibles, base of scape and extremities of tarsi reddish; brown clypeus. The entire body is opaque, even at high magnification, very fine dense punctation in the middle of which pubigeri points are visible. On the gaster the pubigeri are microscopic and where it is weak causes the integument to be glossy. The anterior part of the head is opaque with large with large piligeri points scattered on the forehead, on the clypeus and on the cheeks; the shiny gaster has a weak blue reflection. Pubescence is very weak, very fine hairs on the clypeus and on the cheeks, scanty elsewhere.

The head of the worker media is as wide as it is long, a little narrower in front, with the occipital margin straight not concave; in the worker minor it is much rounded in front with a rounded occiput and the eyes are situated at the back. The clypeus is strongly carinated with a short lobe, wide and amply excised in the middle. The frontal ridges diverge strongly. The mandibles are strongly curved and glossy. The scape surpasses the occipital margin by 1/4 in the media and by 1/2 in the minor. The thorax is moderately robust, the profile is arched, the sloping face of the epinotum more or less joins the basal face in an acute angle very rounded. The node is short and large, the anterior face is convex. the posterior face is flat. Kamerunga, Queensland (Podenzana); one specimen. L 5.2-6 mm.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Emery C. 1920. Studi sui Camponotus. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 52: 3-48.
 * Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.