Camponotus grandidieri

Camponotus grandidieri is widespread in Africa and the Malagasy region. In the latter it occupies many different types of habitats, but is absent on Reunion Island. It has been collected from coastal scrub and littoral forest to spiny forest and tropical dry forest through montane rainforest and savannah woodland. It is also known from mangrove forest and human-dominated areas such as urban gardens and roadsides. Across these habitats, colony nests have been found most often in dead branches above the ground and in rotten logs, and rarely in dead tree stumps, rot pockets and trunks of live trees, under rocks, and under root mats and litter on rocks. Individual workers forage on the ground and on lower vegetation.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Comoros, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe. Malagasy Region: Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Seychelles.

Nomenclature

 *  grandidieri. Camponotus grandidieri Forel, 1886c: ciii (s.w.) MADAGASCAR.
 * [Camponotus grandidieri Forel, 1879a: 115. Nomen nudum.]
 * Forel, 1891b: 39 (s.); Forel, 1892l: 232 (m.); Forel, 1912k: 166 (q.).
 * Combination in C. (Myrmotrema): Forel, 1913a: 145.
 * Subspecies of foraminosus: Mayr, 1893: 195; Forel, 1907e: 14.
 * Revived status as species: Forel, 1914a: 270.
 * Senior synonym of atrabilis, comorensis: Rakotonirina, Csosz & Fisher, 2017: 223.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus eumendax, ruspolii.
 * atrabilis. Camponotus (Myrmotrema) grandidieri var. atrabilis Santschi, 1915c: 273 (w.) MADAGASCAR.
 * Junior synonym of grandidieri: Rakotonirina, Csosz & Fisher, 2017: 223.
 * comorensis. Camponotus (Myrmotrema) grandidieri var. comorensis Santschi, 1915c: 274 (s.w.) COMORO IS.
 * Junior synonym of grandidieri: Rakotonirina, Csosz & Fisher, 2017: 223.