Camponotus aeneopilosus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus aeneopilosus Mayr, 1862: 665 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
 * Mayr, 1865: 34 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1953e: 195 (l.).
 * Combination in C. (Myrmosericus): Forel, 1914a: 268;
 * combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 706; Santschi, 1928e: 482.
 * Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 4; Mayr, 1863: 397; Mayr, 1865: 34 (redescription); Mayr, 1876: 60 (in key); Forel, 1886f: 173; Dalla Torre, 1893: 220; Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Forel, 1902h: 503; Forel, 1907a: 34; Forel, 1910b: 74; Stitz, 1911a: 372; Emery, 1914b: 181; Forel, 1915b: 106; Emery, 1925b: 110; Clark, 1934c: 71; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 110; Taylor, 1987a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 84; McArthur, 2007a: 324; McArthur, 2010: 90; McArthur, 2014: 142.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus flavidopubescens.

Description
Worker 10mm long. Very similar to C. aethiops but with a strong brass-yellow pubescence on the upper side of the gaster; the clypeus is S shaped in the middle of its posterior margin; the mandibles black. Brought back from Sidney (= Sydney) with the Novarae expedition.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Emery C. 1914. Formiche d'Australia e di Samoa raccolte dal Prof. Silvestri nel 1913. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8: 179-186.
 * Heatwole H., S. Tremont, and E. Broese. 2013. Point-diversity, a critical tool for assessing dynamics of guilds of scavenging ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): an example from a eucalypt woodland. Systematics and Biodiversity 11(2): 149180.
 * McArthur A. 2010. A guide to Camponotus ants of South Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, IV + 121 pp.
 * Osunkoya O. O., C. Polo, and A. N. Andersen. 2011. Invasion impacts on biodiversity: response of ant communities to infestation by cat's claw creeper vine, Macfadyena unguis-cati (Bignoniaceae) in subtropical Australia. Biol. Invasions 13: 2289-2302.
 * Stitz H. 1911. Australische Ameisen. (Neu-Guinea und Salomons-Inseln, Festland, Neu-Seeland). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1911: 351-381.