Camponotus subnitidus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus subnitidus Mayr, 1876: 65 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
 * Combination in C. (Dinomyrmex): Forel, 1914a: 268;
 * combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 91.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1887a: 213; Dalla Torre, 1893: 254; Emery, 1896d: 370 (in list); Forel, 1902h: 494; Wheeler, W.M. 1915g: 817; Emery, 1925b: 91; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 120; Taylor, 1987a: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 125; McArthur, 2007a: 326; McArthur, 2014: 76.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus famelicus, longinodis.

Description
Worker. 12-17 mm long. Black dusky with funicles and with part of the tarsus rufo-ferruginous and in the minor worker with the apex of the mandibles more or less rufo-ferruginous and in the minor with a thorax rarely testaceous and petiole and the feet less testaceous; scarcely hairy the pubescence fine and very scarce; mandibles with coarse punctations and the gaster in the same manner transversely striated, in the major worker with the head especially the anterior, sub-opaque densely and finely coriaceous with the larger punctations bearing minute erect hairs; the head in the major is very large (width 4 mm length 4.9 mm), in the posterior part arcuate and emarginate, clypeus distinctly not carined anteriorly produced emarginate and with both sides arcuate, and in the minor the head is narrow wider at the front than at the back and is clearly gradually narrowing behind the eyes towards the articulation, narrower than the thorax, clypeus distinctly keeled with the anterior margin arcuate, thorax is convex above the propodeum angle,and in the minor worker elongated, the petiole above is thickened in a knot.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.