Camponotus claripes

Distribution
This taxon was described from Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  claripes. Camponotus claripes Mayr, 1876: 64 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1902h: 496 (q.). Combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Forel, 1914a: 269; in C. (Thlipsepinotus): Santschi, 1928e: 483. Senior synonym of piperatus: McArthur, 2009: 274. Current subspecies: nominal plus inverallensis, nudimalis, orbiculatopunctatus.
 * piperatus. Camponotus (Myrmophyma) claripes subsp. piperatus Wheeler, W.M. 1933b: 26, fig. 2 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of claripes: McArthur, 2009: 274.

Description
Worker: Length 6-10 mm. Black or brown black, most frequently all the legs including the coxa and femur either yellow or reddish yellow, in these (especially in the minor worker) with a brownish-black ring before the apex, with tibia and tarsus either yellow or chestnut colored, in the minor worker the body is sometimes yellow with the posterior half of the head and the gaster dull black and the dorsum of the thorax more or less dusky; scattered pilosity and very dispersed adpressed pubescence, antennae and legs without erect hair,shining, weak mandibles with dispersed punctation (very finely coriaceous) the anterior half of the head densely punctated and sub opaque with large scattered punctures; clypeus is not strongly carinate, the anterior margin in the major worker has 2 obtuse teeth, in the minor worker it is bow shaped; the thorax is convex above the propodeum angle, in the major worker there is a distinct short transverse scutellum and next is a little transverse depression; the scale of the petiole is ovate.