Camponotus piliventris

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Formica piliventris Smith, F. 1858b: 39 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia).
 * Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 4.
 * Junior synonym of suffusus: Mayr, 1886c: 355; Emery, 1896d: 373; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 120; Taylor, 1987a: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 117.
 * Status as species: Mayr, 1863: 419; Roger, 1863b: 4, 44; McArthur, 2007a: 320; McArthur, 2010: 88.

Description
Worker. Length 5« lines(= 11 mm). Very variable in color: head obscurely black; thorax, legs and abdomen black, or with the head and the thorax obscurely red; sometimes black with only the legs red. Head large, much wider than the thorax, the mandibles with coarse longitudinal irregular striae; the clypeus subcarinate; the head and thorax very delicately shagreened; the thorax rounded in front, much compressed behind, with the metathorax obliquely truncated. Abdomen obscurely cupreous and clothed with a short pale golden pubescence; the scale narrow, incrassate, narrowed to the upper margin, which is very faintly notched. Hab. South Australia.