Camponotus terebrans

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * testaceipes. Formica testaceipes Smith, F. 1858b: 39 (w.) AUSTRALIA. [Junior primary homonym of Formica testaceipes Leach, 1825: 290.] Mayr, 1862: 662 (q.); Forel, 1902h: 494 (s.m.). Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1862: 662; in C. (Myrmophyma): Forel, 1914a: 269; in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 102. Senior synonym of terebrans: Mayr, 1876: 65 (hence terebrans first available replacement name and valid name of taxon: Bolton, 1995b: 126). Senior synonym of rottnesti: Brown, 1956a: 39.
 *  terebrans. Formica terebrans Lowne, 1865a: 278 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of testaceipes Smith, F.: Mayr, 1876: 65. [Formica testaceipes Smith, F. 1858b: 39 is junior primary homonym of Formica testaceipes Leach, 1825: 290; hence terebrans is first available replacement name: Bolton, 1995b: 126.] Type-series of lividipes referred to terebrans group (as testaceipes group): McArthur & Adams, 1996: 41. Senior synonym of myoporus, victoriensis: McArthur, Adams & Shattuck, 1998: 587. See also under testaceipes.
 * victoriensis. Camponotus latrunculus var. victoriensis Santschi, 1928e: 479 (s.w.m.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of terebrans: McArthur, Adams & Shattuck, 1998: 587.
 * myoporus. Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) myoporus Clark, 1938: 379, figs. 20-22 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of terebrans: McArthur, Adams & Shattuck, 1998: 587.

Description
Formica terebrans Lowne, B.T. (1865). Small worker 4 lines long(= 8 mm). Head and abdomen black; antennae, thorax and legs piceous. Head large, broader than the thorax, rounded behind, rufo-piceous anteriorly. Mandibles large, triangular, strongly dentate within and obscurely rufo-piceous. Antennae long and slender. Eyes large, ovate and prominent. Thorax rounded anteriorly; the meso- and metathorax much compressed laterally, with a small raised ocellate spot on each side of the mesothorax. Scale of the peduncle ovate, pointed above. Abdomen ovate, the apical margins of its segments testaceous, thinly covered with pale silky hairs. Large worker 5 lines long, with a very large head. Female 6 lines long. Black. Wings subhyaline, with fuscous nervures. These insects excavate the hard dead stumps of gum trees (Eucalypti) with complicated galleries. Early in October I found winged females only in a nest; they were apparently hybernating, as they were packed closely in closed galleries, which I cut into by accident whilst searching for wood-boring beetles. A few days after I found swarms of the winged females, clustering about the flowers of Boronias and other Rutaceae, for several days. In December I found numerous colonies of these insects, with abundance of large and small workers, but I sought for the sexes in vain.

Formica testaceipes Smith,F. (1858) Worker. Length 4 lines (= 8 mm)  Shining black: the legs flavo-testaceous, the flagellum testaceous; the posterior angles of the head, two distinct maculae on the prothorax above, and also the disc of the metathorax, ferruginous. The head deeply emarginate behind, very smooth and shining; the anterior margin of the clypeus widely emarginate. Thorax smooth, anteriorly rounded, posteriorly compressed. Abdomen ovate; the scale of the peduncle ovate and notched above. Hab. Australia (King George's Sound)

Additional References

 * [[Media:Adams 1997.pdf|McArthur, A. J.; Adams, M.; Shattuck, S. O. 1998 [1997]. A morphological and molecular review of Camponotus terebrans (Lowne) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 45: 579-598 PDF]]