Camponotus christi

Camponotus christi is widely distributed across Madagascar. It occupies sclerophyll forests of the central high plateau, tropical dry forests in the west to coastal scrub and littoral rainforests, as well as montane rainforests in the east. While its workers have been found foraging on the forest floor and the lower portions of vegetation, their nest sites have been located in root mats in the ground layer, rotten logs, rotting tree stumps, rotten pockets above the ground, dead branches and bamboo above the ground, and in canopy moss and leaf litter.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Malagasy Region: Madagascar.

Nomenclature

 *  christi. Camponotus christi Forel, 1886f: 184 (w.) MADAGASCAR.
 * Combination in C. (Myrmocamelus): Forel, 1914a: 270.
 * Combination in C. (Myrmosaga): Emery, 1920b: 257.
 * Combination in C. (Mayria): Emery, 1925b: 122.
 * Status as species: Forel, 1891b: 63 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 224; Emery, 1896d: 373 (in list); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1045; Emery, 1925b: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 92; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2018: 18.