Camponotus claviscapus

Gillette et al. (2015) in a Chaipas, Mexico field study of twig-nesting ants in coffee plants found C. brettesi nesting within one sampled plot of plants at 950m.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Nomenclature

 *  claviscapus. Camponotus claviscapus Forel, 1899c: 152 (s.w.q.) TRINIDAD. [Camponotus claviscapus Emery, 1896g: 36. Nomen nudum, attributed to Forel.] Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 219 (l.). Combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1912i: 90; in C. (Pseudocolobopsis): Emery, 1920b: 259. Current subspecies: nominal plus lehmanni, occultus, subcarinatus.