Camponotus novaehollandiae

Distribution
This taxon was described from Australia. It is also found in New Caledonia.

Nomenclature

 *  novaehollandiae. Camponotus novaehollandiae Mayr, 1870b: 939 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Mayr, 1876: 66 (q.m.). Combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1915b: 98; Wheeler, W.M. 1915g: 814; in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 96. Subspecies of sylvaticus: Forel, 1879a: 67; of rubripes: Forel, 1886f: 143; of maculatus: Forel, 1915b: 98; of variegatus: Emery, 1920c: 7; Emery, 1925b: 96. Revived status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 245; Clark, 1930c: 19; Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 118. Senior synonym of villosus: McArthur & Leys, 2006: 109.
 * villosus. Camponotus (Myrmoturba) villosa Crawley, 1915a: 136 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 102. Junior synonym of novaehollandiae: McArthur & Leys, 2006: 109.

Description
Worker Length. 10-13 mm. Yellow shining rather pale legs, tarsus tending to be red, mandibles ferruginous, head more or less not dark; hairy, cheeks with short upstanding hair; antennae and tibia not hairy; sparse pubescence, tibia and scapes with plentiful short pubescence, somewhat erect, finely coriaceous, the gaster in the same manner with transverse wrinkles and grooves, mandibles finely (more or less finely coriaceous) with scattered punctures; Clypeus obtusely keeled, produced forward in a frontal lobe, anterior margin straight and emarginate on both sides; size of the body as in C.sylvatico Io.; petiole with ovate node, in a way thick, anterior face convex, posterior face flat, edges rounded. From Cape York. This as well as a second coming from the islands of the Pacific Ocean and a third yet doubtful form from the South East Islands I collected earlier, before I had obtained the true C.pallidus Sm. from Borneo through Marquese Doria, for this species. C.novaehollandae is different from C.pallidus in the larger size, the yellow color,the less compressed less convex thorax, in the cheeks covered with upstanding hair (in the worker major of C pallidus there is always only flat-lying hair), in the rather highly glossy body, the sparse pubescence of the gaster and in the absence of punctations on the gaster.

What now concerns the above mentioned second species from the southern islands (from Godeffroy Museum), I would like to postpone the description of the same until a larger number of specimens is available to me. It is also observed in the Adnot ad mon, indoneerl. Form. The given diagnosis of C. pallidus can be placed in no definite species and is therefore struck out.