Camponotus ceriseipes

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  ceriseipes. Camponotus (Myrmophyma) ceriseipes Clark, 1938: 378, figs. 17-19 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1974a: 60 (l.). See also: Shattuck & McArthur, 2002: 70.

Description
Worker. - Length 12mm. Mandibles and head dark brown, with some lighter and darker tints. Thorax reddish brown, tinged darker in places. Scapes, node and gaster black, femora reddish yellow, tibiae and tarsi brown. Apical half of mandibles coarsely striate-rugose, smooth and punctate at base. Remainder of body very finely and densely reticulate, with fine shallow scattered punctures. Hair yellow, long and erect on mandibles, clypeus and gaster, sparse elsewhere. Pubescence short and adpressed, apparent only on legs. Head one-seventh broader than long, occipital border straight, sides strongly convex, angles rounded. Mandibles furnished with six large sharp teeth. Clypeus convex above and in front, sub-carinate, anterior edge feebly crenulate. Frontal area triangular, small and shallow. Frontal carinae as long as broad behind, twice as broad behind as in front. Scapes extend beyond occipital border by almost one-fourth their length. First and third segments of funiculus equal in length, slightly longer than second, apical segment twice as long as the preceding. Eyes rather small and flatly convex. Only anterior ocellus present, very small, situated in a rather deep pit. Thorax one and one-half times longer than broad. Pro-mesonotal suture deeply impressed, meso-epinotal suture wide and shallow. Pronotum fully twice as broad as long, sides strongly convex. Mesonotum very slightly broader than long, circular, dorsum strongly convex all ways. Epinotum convex transversely, as long as broad in profile pronotum and mesonotum convex, excised at suture, epinotum straight in front, rounded into declivity behind, declivity feebly concave, as long as dorsum. Node slender, scale-like, convex in front, straight behind: in profile twice as high as long, sharply pointed, anterior face convex, posterior face straight. Gaster one and one-half times longer than broad. First segment twice as broad as long, strongly convex in front. Legs long and stout. Worker media - Length 9.5-10 mm. Black, femora light yellowish red, funiculi brown. Sculpture and pilosity as in worker major. Head very slightly broader than long, occipital border slightly convex. Scapes extend beyond occipital border by almost one-fourth their length. In profile the epinotum lower and node much ticker than in worker major. Worker minor. - 7-7.5 mm. Color, sculpture and pilosity as in worker media. Head one seventh longer than broad, strongly convex behind eyes. Scapes extend beyond occipital border by almost half their length, thorax one and three-quarter times longer than broad; in profile mesonotum higher in front and more convex. Node thicker, as long as high, parallel, dorsum rounded. Habitat - Reevesby Island. A small nest was found in the ground at the north end of the island.