Camponotus gombaki

This species belongs to the Camponotus subgenus/species-group Karavaievia of southeast Asia. Most Karavaievia species are weaver ants that build their nests with silk. Biological details of this group and some of its constituent species are found on the Karavaievia page.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Malaysia.

Nomenclature

 *  gombaki. Camponotus (Karavaievia) gombaki Dumpert, 1986: 563, figs. 3, 4 (w.q.) WEST MALAYSIA. Dumpert, in Dumpert, Maschwitz, et al., 1995: 101 (m.).

Male
Dumpert (1995) - Allotype: TL 5.5, HL 0.88, HW 0.95, CI 108.1, SL 1.0, SI 95.2, PW 1.24, OD 0.43. Paratype: TL 5.3, HL 0.9, HW 0.9, CI 100, SL 0.93, SI 97 .4, PW 1.18, OD 0.43 (1 measured).

Head trapezoidal and nearly as long as wide (CI 108.1); occipital margin strongly convex with protruding ocelli and prominent convex eyes, extending to the upper end of the head sides. Anterior clypeal margin almost straight but with a slight, but broad median excision. Frontal carinae short and sinuate, reaching back to about mid1ength of head. Maximum diameter of the eyes 0.43 mm or about 0.5 HW. Scapes long, projecting beyond occipital margin of the head by about half their length. Pedicel expanded at its distal end and thicker than following flagellar segments. Propodeal profile rounded with convex dorsal and weakly convex descending part. Petiolar scale triangular in profile, with a broad base tapering to a ridge. Ridge with deep median excision.

Colour uniformly reddish brown, except the yellow mandibles, tarsi, and distal antennal flagella, the yellow brown clypeus and gastral stripes, and the blackish brown scutellum. Except the shining scutellum and the slightly shining gaster, cuticle opaque. Wings nearly white with yellow veins. Decumbent pubescence especially on gaster, but also on head and alitrunk; additional longer erect and suberect hair predominantly on head.

Type Material
Dumpert (1995) - Allotype male, Peninsular Malaysia, Gombak Valley. 25 km north of Kuala Lumpur, near the Ulu Gombak Field Studies Centre of the University of Malaya, Febr/3/1993, U. Maschwitz leg. (Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel).

Paratype: 1 male with same data as holotype (used for SEM).