Camponotus repens

Camponotus repens is an endemic, widespread species distributed across the littoral forests and rainforests of the north, the tropical dry forests of the northwest and west, the gallery forests of the central south and southeast, and the spiny forests and thickets in the south of Madagascar. In open habitats like Uapaca woodland, spiny forests and thickets, and a few tropical forests, the nests are found either in the ground or under stones, whereas in most of the dry habitats and the gallery forests the species nests in rotten logs, rot pockets, and rotting tree stumps. Workers have been found foraging in the leaf litter, on the ground and on the lower parts of the vegetation.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Malagasy Region: Madagascar.

Nomenclature

 * madagascarensis. Mayria madagascarensis Forel, 1886c: civ (w.) MADAGASCAR. Forel, 1894e: 227 (s.). Combination in Camponotus (Mayria): Forel, 1894e: 227. [Junior secondary homonym of madagascarensis Forel, above.] Replacement name: repens Forel, 1897c: 187.
 *  repens. Camponotus (Mayria) repens Forel, 1897c: 187. Replacement name for Mayria madagascarensis Forel, 1886c: civ. [Junior secondary homonym of Camponotus niveosetosus r. madagascarensis Forel, 1886c: civ.]