Camponotus suffusus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  suffusus. Formica suffusa Smith, F. 1858b: 38 (q.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1915b: 105 (m.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 219 (l.). Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 4; in C. (Myrmosphincta): Forel, 1912i: 92; in C. (Myrmosaulus): Emery, 1925b: 114. Senior synonym of schencki: Dalla Torre, 1893: 254; Emery, 1896d: 373. Current subspecies: nominal plus bendigensis.
 * schencki. Camponotus schencki Mayr, 1862: 674 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of suffusus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 254; Emery, 1896d: 373.

Description
Female. Length 7 lines (= 14 mm). Black: the head obscurely ferruginous, the face darkest, then antennae black; the thorax with the sides with ferruginous stains above, the scutellum and two longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, ferruginous; the legs ferruginous; wings fusco-hyline, the nervures light brown, with a stain running along their course. Abdomen ovate, thinly clothed with pale golden golden pubescence. Hab. Australia. From the close resemblance between this species and F. piliventris, it is probably that this is the female of that insect.

Camponotus shencki Mayr, G.L. (1862) Worker length 8 mm. Reddish brown, almost black, legs brownish red. Upstanding hair covering on whole body, also on legs, yellowish white, not especially long, flat lying pubescence sparse, more ample on the gaster where it is bronze colored. Mandibles with 5-6 teeth spacious, in rows, coarsely punctate. The head is dull with plentiful fine thimble like punctations. Clypeus weakly keeled, somewhat stretched out in front, but with curved sides. Sculpture of the thorax similar to the head, but somewhat coarse, no shine, above between the meso and metanotum impressed, from the anterior end of the thorax to this depression curved, the metanotum humped, the horizontal from one side to the other domed base surface is almost double as long as the steep sloping surface, which with the first forms a blunt angle which is very strongly rounded. The node is thick, egg shaped, whose sculpture as on the head and thorax is weak, some what inclined to the front, front and back convex. Gaster is thickly and finely wrinkled punctate.

I acquired this specimen from New Holland. Prof. Schenck.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Vanderwoude C., A. N. Andersen, and A. P. N. House. 1997. Community organisation, biogeography and seasonality of ants in a open forest of south-eastern Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 523-537.