Camponotus tasmani

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus tasmani Forel, 1902h: 503 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia).
 * Combination in C. (Myrmocamelus): Forel, 1914a: 270;
 * combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1920b: 257; Santschi, 1928e: 482.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1925b: 112; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 120; Taylor, 1987a: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 126; McArthur, 2007a: 316; McArthur, 2010: 38; McArthur, 2014: 160.

Description
Worker. Length 6.8 to 8.5 mm. Closely resembles ephippium so much at first sight that one is confused by it. It differs as follows: It is smaller, the clypeus is less projecting or lobed in front, without a keel or sub keeled. The scapes, shorter, exceed the occiput by less than 1/2 their length (by more than 1/2 in the case of ephippium). Funicles less thin. The pro-mesonotum is more strongly convex, very humped and the profile of the metanotum is more distinctly concave. The limbs appear to be shorter. The whole body,the limbs and the scapes are abundantly hairy with a long whitish pilosity more abundant than that of intrepidus or suffusus. Thorax entirely ferruginous red; limbs, antennae and mandibles brown, head and gaster black. Pubescence more abundant than slesX type, of a grayish yellow, slightly golden. Otherwise like ephippium. South Australia (my collection) This species is particularly distinct because of its pilosity and by its limbs which are shorter and thinner.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * 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.