Camponotus maculatus species complex

See the Camponotus species groups page for general information about species groups in this genus.

African species
Camponotus maculatus Major

The vast majority of species from this group are known from Africa.

McArthur and Leys (2006) performed an analysis of the genetic relationships between African and Australian species from this group. They found: The molecular results showed no support for the assumption that the African species, which are morphologically similar to the Australian species, belong to the same group. Pairwise distances are large (12.1 - 18.4 %) and relationships among these groups are unresolved with the inclusion of some species that clearly do not have “maculatus” morphological features. The very deep divergences among the unresolved clades of species indicate that these clades would be better assigned to different species groups.

Australian species
McArthur and Leys (2006)


 * Camponotus crozieri
 * Camponotus extensus
 * Camponotus humilior
 * Camponotus novaehollandiae
 * Camponotus oxleyi
 * Camponotus spenceri

New World Species
MacKay and Delsinne (2009)

The New World species tentatively placed in the maculatus species complex include:


 * Camponotus abunanus
 * Camponotus conspicuus zonatus
 * Camponotus fuscocinctus
 * Camponotus lucayanus
 * Camponotus maculatus
 * Camponotus picipes guatemalensis
 * Camponotus picipes plombyi
 * Camponotus pullatus
 * Camponotus santosi
 * Camponotus simillimus indianus
 * Camponotus coloratus
 * Camponotus taniae
 * Camponotus tortuganus.

Camponotus variegatus does not occur in the New World nor Hawaii (see Hansen & Klotz 2005:98-99 and Kirschenbaum & Grace 2007) and specimens are here referred to as C. maculatus, until the Old World species can be clarified.