Camponotus janeti

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  janeti. Camponotus janeti Forel, 1895f: 417 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in C. (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1914a: 271. See also: McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 35.

Type Material


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Description
Worker (major) Length 8 mm.

Mandibles short thick armed with 6 or 7 teeth, punctate, finely shagreen between punctations. Head trapezoidal, elongated almost rectangular slightly indented behind. Eyes situated at posterior 1/3. Scapes scarcely reaching occiput. Frontal carinae very long extremely diverging more distant from each other than from the borders of the head. Clypeus flattened, rectangular, elongated, with rounded angles, (its median section) more narrow in front than behind, bidented on its anterior border, without keel, with a strong median impression behind its anterior border. Thorax sub depressed (less than albopilosus) a little more narrow behind (than albopilosus) but much less than in the usual forms, without indentation, but with 2 wide and strongly imprinted sutures. Metanotum (= propodeum) low; basal and declivity faces, sub equal, they pass through a rounded curve from one to the other. Basal face rather wider than long. Pedicel topped by a node thick, low, wide, obtuse and widely indented at the summit.

Quite shiny, finely and weakly transversely wrinkled; head sub opaque, finely reticulate. Coarse punctation superimposed, irregular, widely spaced, quite abundant on the head, more abundant and more coarse at the front. On the gaster the punctation is quite fine. Erect pilosity which is quite abundant, fine pale yellow, moderate length, widespread on all the body the limbs and the scapes. Pubescence very diluted. Black. Scapes, base of tibias, 1st segment of funiculus and femural rings of a dark red. Tarsi and funicles brown, segments of gaster bordered yellow. Worker (minor) 5.6 mm long   Head much shorter than major scarcely longer than wide, a little wider behind than in front. Clypeus convex, keeled. Pedicel with a cubic cuniform knot. Punctation of head very fine and more widely spaced than the major, peripheral 1/2 of the mandibles reddish, Tarsi russet reddish, extremities of scapes brown. In other respects quite like the major. Mackay, Queensland (Gilbert Turner)