Camponotus arcuatus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus arcuatus Mayr, 1876: 63 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
 * Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 217 (l.).
 * Combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1914a: 266;
 * combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1920b: 257.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 222; Emery, 1896d: 374 (in list); Kirby, W.F. 1896: 203; Forel, 1902h: 494; Forel, 1914a: 266; Emery, 1925b: 110; Clark, 1930c: 18; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 110; Taylor, 1987a: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 86; McArthur, 2007a: 334; McArthur, 2010: 74; McArthur, 2014: 118.
 * 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)