Camponotus madagascarensis

Camponotus madagascarensis is an endemic, widespread species of Madagascar. It is known to occupy western dry forest habitats, the north central and south central portions of eastern rainforests, savannah woodland of the central highland, and subhumid gallery forests of the southern high plateau. The species is absent from spiny bush and thicket in the southwest and southernmost portions of the island. The species is sympatric with Camponotus grandidieri, Camponotus mita and Camponotus voeltzkowii. Workers of C. madagascarensis forage either terrestrially on the forest floor, through leaf mold and rotten wood, or on low vegetation. Nests are constructed not only under rocks and rootmats and litter on rocks or rotten logs, and in the ground, but also in dead tree stumps, dead branches, and twigs above the ground (Rakotonirina, Csosz & Fisher, 2017).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Malagasy Region: Madagascar.

Nomenclature

 *  madagascarensis. Camponotus niveosetosus r. madagascarensis Forel, 1886c: civ (w.) MADAGASCAR.
 * [Camponotus niveosetosus var. madagascarensis Forel, 1879a: 115. Nomen nudum.]
 * Santschi, 1926b: 262 (q.).
 * Combination in C. (Myrmopiromis): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1052.
 * Status as species: Rakotonirina, Csosz & Fisher, 2017: 233.