Camponotus renggeri

This ant was observed visiting the extrafloral nectaries of Tocoyena formosa plants occurring in a southeastern Brazilian cerrado study-site (Sanz-Veiga et al. 2017)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay.

Biology
Koch et al. (2018) sampled this species in Caryocar barsiliense trees, in southeastern Brazil cerrado, as part of a study examining species interactions in ant-plants.

Nomenclature

 *  renggeri. Camponotus rufipes subsp. renggeri Emery, 1894e: 3 (w.q.) PARAGUAY. Forel, 1909a: 265 (m.). Combination in C. (Myrmothrix): Forel, 1912i: 91. Raised to species: Forel, 1912i: 91. Subspecies of rufipes: Bruch, 1914: 230; Santschi, 1916e: 397; Wheeler, W.M. 1923a: 5. Status as species: Luederwaldt, 1918: 53; Emery, 1920b: 256; Emery, 1925b: 109; Kusnezov, 1952d: 219; Hashmi, 1973: 67.