Camponotus rubiginosus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Camponotus rubiginosus Mayr, 1876: 66 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
 * Combination in C. (Myrmogonia): Forel, 1914a: 269;
 * combination in C. (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1920b: 257;
 * combination in C. (Thlipsepinotus): Santschi, 1928e: 483.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 250; Emery, 1896d: 374 (in list); Emery, 1925b: 112; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 118; Taylor, 1987a: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 121; McArthur, 2007a: 340; McArthur, 2014: 132.
 * rubra, see under ruber.

Description
Worker 5 -10 mm long. Ferruginous, last 3 segments of the abdomen black, in the major worker the head and mandibles are darker, meso and meta thorax anteriorly black, in the minor worker head and thorax black, clypeus, joints and posterior of metanotum (= pronotum) more or less chestnut or ferruginous; with erect pilosity and short rigid erect hairs on tibias, pubescence scattered very fine adpressed; glossy finely coriaceous with scattered punctations, gaster with very fine transverse striations; clypeus in the major worker without keel and with anterior margin bidentate, in the minor worker a keel and the anterior border bowed without teeth; thorax is short, from the middle of the pronotum to the declining part of the metanotum the dorsum is nearly straight, declining part of the metanotum (= propodeum)is subvertical, below oblique; node on the petiole is egg shaped. Peak Downs,Queensland.