Thlipsepinotus

Pinch-back Carpenter Ants

Santschi (1928) separated a number of species out of Myrmophyma sensu Emery (1925) into their own subgenus, which he designated Thlipsepinotus.

Diagnosis. Santschi (1928). - "Vertex of head moderately swollen, with little or no dimples anteriorly in majors. Meosoma broad and depressed anteriorly with pronotum usually bordered, while propodeum strongly compressed, with posterior face longer than dorsal face, meeting of these two faces usually very oblique or abrupt, both sides very narrow in workers of all sizes. In general, eyes situated more anteriorly than Myrmophyma [sensu Santschi]. These ants were treated by Forel as members of his subgenus Myrmogonia [now synonymized with Colobopsis."

(Translated and edited by B. E. Boudinot, 19 February 2017.)

Thlipsepinotus is currently a subgenus of Camponotus.

Nomenclature

 *  THLIPSEPINOTUS [subgenus of Camponotus]
 * Thlipsepinotus Santschi, 1928e: 483 [as subgenus of Camponotus]. Type-species: Camponotus claripes, by original designation.