Camponotus fumidus fraterculus

Stated as being found nesting in the same situation as Camponotus picipes plombyi, which were found living in crater nests in the ground (Wheeler and Mann 1914).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Greater Antilles, Haiti.

Nomenclature

 *  fraterculus. Camponotus maculatus subsp. fraterculus Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914: 50, fig. 21 (s.w.) HAITI. Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 81. Currently subspecies of fumidus: Emery, 1925b: 81.

Worker
Worker major. Length 8-9 mm.

Differing from the preceding subspecies in its smaller size, more coarsely shagreened surface, in having the short hairs covering the dorsal surface of the head and the cheeks more numerous and the surface more punctate. The antennal scapes bear very few erect hairs and those on the tibiae are shorter, less abundant and much more appressed. The head is brown, with the posterior corners, posterior border and c1ypeus, except its borders, brownish yellow; cheeks and vertex darker brown or blackish. Pro-, meso-, and epinotum each with a large brown or blackish patch above, that on the pronotum enclosing two elliptical yellow spots. The transverse bands on the gaster are darker and more sharply defined than in haytianus. The antennal scapes are dark brown, the funiculi brownish yellow.

Worker minor. Length 5-6.5 mm.

Yellow nearly throughout, the vertex of the head in some specimens slightly infuscated. Legs and scapes with very fine, dense,. appressed pubescence; scapes also with a few scattered, erect hairs.

Type Locality Information
Described from numerous specimens taken at Furcy where they were nesting in the same stations and in the same manner as the specimens of the subspecies plombyi.