Camponotus niavo

Camponotus niavo is geographically restricted to the transitional humid forest of Ampasindava Peninsula, the rainforests of the Galoko chain and RS Manongarivo, and the montane rainforest of the PN Montagne d’Ambre (Fig. 68D). Colony nests are established in rotten logs and rotting tree stumps, while foraging is carried out on the forest floor and through leaf litter.

Identification
With head in full-face view, lateral cephalic margin converging posteriorly towards eye level, covered with erect hairs anterior and posterior to eye level; anteromedian margin of clypeus broadly convex; two apical teeth of mandible normally spaced.

See discussion under Camponotus cervicalis for further details.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Malagasy Region: Madagascar.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus niavo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 138, figs. 10A, 68 (s.w.) MADAGASCAR.

Type Material

 * Holotype worker. MADAGASCAR: Province Antsiranana: PN Montagne d’Ambre, Antomboka, -12.50035, 49.175, 885 m, montane rainforest, ex rotten log, 16 Nov 2007 (B.L. Fisher et al.) collection code: BLF18356 specimen code: CASENT0134004 (CAS).
 * Paratype. 1 major worker of same data as holotype but with specimen code: CASENT0134003 (CAS).