Camponotus simulator

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  simulator. Camponotus (Dinomyrmex) simulator Forel, 1915b: 96 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 90.

Description
Worker major, Length 11.5 mm. This form seems at first glance to be so similar to Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus F.r. discors that one would take it to be the same species. The jaws therefore have only 6 teeth, the head is much longer than wide, the scape extends over the posterior margin of the head distinctly more than 1/3 of its length (scarcely a quarter with discors); the head is not so convex, the whole shape is narrower, the legs much longer, the thorax anterior still narrower and the node distinctly thicker. Colors, spines, sculpture and hair covering are but deceptively similar, above all the thorax is of a more regular shape, yellowish brown and the gaster is as brown in front as behind. The head is somewhat more strongly narrowing in front and the striations thinner. Worker Minor. Length 8.5 mm. Head almost twice as long as wide in the middle, behind the eyes strongly narrowing, almost exactly with the race carin Emery des dorycus, behind somewhat more distinctly neck shaped narrowing, the sides therefore at least as convex. The long narrow thorax is much less convex, than with discors, from front to back evenly convex. The thick node is as long below as it is high, back and front convex, but the summit is much sharper, sharper than the major worker. The color is somewhat brighter than with the major worker and the whole shape much longer and narrower than with discors. The cheeks have single upstanding hairs (also with the major worker) which conform with discors. Atherton, Herberton (Queensland). This form which appears to be deceptively similar to discors has no trace of erect or flat lying hair on the tibias or antennae, it decidedly conforms with Inezae For. but it is much smaller. Inezae has a few small hairs and no hair on the cheeks, also with the major worker the anterior head narrower and the posterior wider.