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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus innexus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. innexus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus innexus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1902<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>innexus.</span> Camponotus innexus'' Forel, 1902h: 499 (s.w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 218 (l.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmepomis''): Forel, 1914a: 273; in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1920b: 257; Santschi, 1928e: 482.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major. Length 6.5 to 9 mm. Mandibles short, armed with 6 teeth, the outer border strongly curved, silky, striated, reticulate punctate towards the base. The clypeus without a lobe, without a keel, quite flat, strongly indented in the middle of the anterior border (as in ''C. marginatus''). Frontal area small. Frontal ridges sinuous, strongly diverging. The sides of the clypeus diverge at the front. The head is trapezoidal, quite strongly widened and strongly indented at the back, scarcely longer than its posterior width. The eyes behind the middle. Scapes pass over the occiput by 1/4 to 1/3 of their length. Pronotum depressed, weakly convex, edged in an arc at the front and the anterior part of the sides which make the shoulders very rounded; wider than long. Mesonotum slightly convex, narrow behind, scarcely sub bordered. Basal face of the metanotum (= propodeum) long, narrow, lower at the back, weakly but distinctly concave or in a saddle (much less than ''ephippium''). The declivity is much shorter than the basal face. The node is very thick, as thick at the top as at the bottom, flat at the back, convex in front, quite elevated with the summit convex in all directions. Tibias, cylindrical but slightly channeled, with a range of very short and oblique spines.<br />
Very finely and densely reticulate (reticulate-punctate) sub opaque, front of head matte. Gaster with microscopic striations transverse and silky. Pilosity erect, fine, pale yellow, sparse on body, more abundant on the front of the head, distinct on the scapes, none on the tibias. Pubescence extremely short, fine and sparse. Of a yellow rusty red; head and gaster black. Antennae, tarses, and part of the tibias brown. The posterior edges of the segments of the gaster vivid yellow.<br />
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Worker minor. Head scarcely longer than wide, strongly wider at the back, posterior border almost straight. Clypeus a little more projecting as a rounded lobe but also indented in the middle like the major worker. The scape exceeds the head by 2/5 of its length. Pronotum even more edged and more shouldered than the major worker; mesonotum strongly sub bordered, and its anterior border exceeds by a little the level of the pronotum. In profile the basal face of the metanotum is subrectalinear, without a distinct concavity. In other respects like the major.<br />
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Bong-Bong, NSW (Froggatt)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 499, soldier, worker, queen, male described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 273, Combination in C. (Myrmepomis))<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 482, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61: 205-222 (page 218, larva described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_inflatus&diff=209642Camponotus inflatus2013-05-21T23:49:08Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus inflatus''<br />
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|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. inflatus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus inflatus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Lubbock, 1880<br />
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*''[[Camponotus aurofasciatus Wheeler, W.M.]]'', 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
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==Nomenclature==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>inflatus.</span> Camponotus inflatus'' Lubbock, 1880: 186, pl. 8 (s.) AUSTRALIA. Froggatt, 1896: 389 (q.m.); Forel, 1910b: 73 (w.m.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Forel, 1914a: 269. Senior synonym of ''aurofasciatus'': Wheeler, W.M. 1916e: 40; Wheeler, W.M. 1916i: 37.<br />
*''aurofasciatus. Camponotus (Myrmamblys) aurofasciatus'' Wheeler, W.M. 1915g: 817, pl. 66, fig. 7 (w.) AUSTRALIA. [Unresolved junior primary homonym of ''aurofasciatus'' Santschi, above.] Junior synonym of ''inflatus'': Wheeler, W.M. 1916e: 40.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
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Lubbock, J. (1880).<br />
The color is black, the feet being somewhat paler. The body is sparsely covered with stiff cinereo-testaceous hairs, especially on the lower and anterior part of the head, the mandibles, and the posterior edge of the thorax. The head and thorax are finely coriaceous. The antennae are of moderate length, twelve-jointed; the scape about one third as long as the terminal portion and somewhat bent. At the apex of the scape are a few short spines, bifurcated at the point. At the apex of each of the succeeding segments are a few much less conspicuous spines, which decrease in size from the basal segments outwards. The antenna is also thickly clothed with short hairs, and especially towards the apex with leaf-shaped sense-hairs. The clypeus is rounded, with a slightly developed median lobe and a row of stiff hairs round the anterior border; it is not carinated. The mandibles have six teeth, those on one side (fig. 3) being rather more developed and more pointed than those on the other. They decreased pretty regularly from the outside inwards. The maxillae (fig. 5) are formed on the usual type. The maxillary palpi are six-joined, the third segment being but slightly longer than the second, fourth and fifth; which in ''Myrmecocystus'' the third and fourth are greatly elongated. The segments of the palpi have on the inner side a number of curious curved blunt hairs besides the usual shorter ones. The labial palpi are four-jointed (fig. 4) the eyes are elliptical and of moderate size. The ocelli are not developed. The thorax (figs. 7 and 8) is arched, broadest in front, without any marked incision between the meso- and metanotum (= propodeum); the mesonotum itself is, which seen from above, very broadly oval, almost circular, rather boarder in front and somewhat flattened behind. Figs. 7 and 8 give outlines of the thorax, seen laterally and from above. The legs are of moderate length, the hinder ones somewhat the longest. The scale or knot (fig. 6) is heart-shaped, flat behind, slightly arched in front, and with a few stiff, slightly diverging hairs at the upper angles. The length is about two thirds of an inch (16.5 mm).<br />
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Wheeler (1908).<br />
Lubbock described the worker of this ant in 1880 from specimens taken at Adelaide, Australia. His diagnosis was, however, so imperfect that the insect had to be redescribed by Forel (1886). McCook (1882) has also studied and figured this species (1882, Figs. 71 and 74). According to Forel, it "had nothing to distinguish it particularly from other ''Camponoti'', except the purely physiological distension of its gaster, evidently due to the enormous plenitude of the crop, as in ''Myrmecocystus melliger''. This dilation, however, is smaller than that of ''melliger''." More recently (1896) Froggatt has described the male and female of ''C. inflatus'' from specimens collected as Ayers Rock, Illamurta in the James Ranges of Central Australia. All three phases of this ant are black with paler legs and antennae. The repletes measure 70 mm. Froggatt records the following notes sent him by Baldwin Spencer: "The black honey ant (''Camponotus inflatus'' Lub.) is called `Yarumpa' by the natives, by whom it is esteemed a great luxury; it is, par excellence, the honey ant of the central country, and ranges across the Murchison in Western Australia. We found them plentiful in certain districts on the hard sandy plains, and also very abundant in patches among the Mulga scrub. The ground all round Ayers Rock, to the south of Lake Amadeus, was strewn with heaps of sand where the natives had been digging them out. They construct no mounds over their nests; the entrance, which is an inch in length by a quarter of an inch in width, leads down into a vertical shaft or burrow from five or six feet in depth. About a foot below the surface horizontal passages about a foot in length lead off from the main shaft, at the end of which were three or four of the honey ants, while the bottom of the main shaft, which is excavated into a larger cavity, contains a considerable number. The `honey ants' are quite incapable of movement and must be fed by the workers. Unlike all the other ants noticed in this country, these did not appear to collect twigs, leaves or grass to carry into their burrows."<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Rev. Suisse Zool. 18: 1-94 (page 73, worker, male described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 269, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Froggatt, W. W. 1896. Honey ants. Pp. 385-392 in: Spencer, B. (ed.) Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part II. Zoology. London: Dulau & Co., iv + 431 pp. (page 389, queen, male described)<br />
*Lubbock, J. 1880. Observations on ants, bees, and wasps; with a description of a new species of honey-ant.- Part VII. Ants. J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 15: 167-187 (page 186, pl. 8, soldier described)<br />
*Wheeler, W. M. 1916g. Some new formicid names. Psyche (Camb.) 23: 40-41 (page 40, Senior synonym of aurofasciatus)<br />
*Wheeler, W. M. 1916m. Prodiscothyrea, a new genus of ponerine ants from Queensland. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 40: 33-37 (page 37, Senior synonym of aurofasciatus)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Colobopsis_howensis&diff=209589Colobopsis howensis2013-05-21T06:20:20Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus howensis''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. howensis'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus howensis''<br />
|binomial_authority = Wheeler, W.M., 1927<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>howensis.</span> Camponotus (Colobopsis) howensis'' Wheeler, W.M. 1927i: 152, fig. 12 (w.) AUSTRALIA. See also: McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 33.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|material=9 workers<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker minor. Length 4.5-5 mm. Head about one-sixth longer than broad, slightly narrower in front than behind, broadest through the eyes, with broadly rounded posterior corners and nearly straight sides. Eyes large, moderately convex, a little more than half again as long as their distance from the anterior corners of the head. Mandibles short and rather convex, their somewhat oblique apical border with 5 subequal teeth. Clypeus broader than long, subcarinate, its anterior border slightly reflected, forming a short, broadly rounded lobe. Frontal area and groove indistinct; frontal carinae rather straight, diverging posteriorly. Antennae slender; scapes extending about 2/5 their length beyond the posterior border of the head. Thorax long, laterally compressed, especially in the epinotal region; promesonotal and mesoepinotal sutures impressed, the former more strongly than the latter. Thoracic dorsum in profile nearly straight, except for the sutural impressions and a slight elevation of the mesonotum anteriorly; pronotum feebly rounded in front. The compression of the epinotum reduces its dorsal surface to a roof-like ridge with terminates behind in a blunt point from which the triangular declivity falls nearly perpendicularly in profile; the base being nearly straight and horizontal, the somewhat shorter declivity distinctly concave. Petiole node rather high, its anterior surface convex above, its posterior surface flat, the superior border very sharp. Seen from behind the node is rectangular, somewhat narrowed above, the superior border straight and entire, with distinct lateral corners, more rarely somewhat emarginate in the middle. Gaster elongate elliptical; legs somewhat flattened, the fore femora distinctly enlarged. Shining and very finely and evenly shagreened; mandibles finely striate-punctate; cheeks sparsely but not deeply punctate. Hairs yellow, very sparse, present only on the clypeus, front, vertex and gaster. Pubescence short, sparse and appressed, distinct only on the gaster, appendages and head. Black; mandibles, clypeus, cheeks and antennae castaneous; palpi yellow; insertions and tips of antennal scapes, first funicular joint, knees, and tarsi brownish yellow; tibiae brown. Described from numerous specimens from Lord Howe Island. This species is related to ''C. sommeri'' Forel of New Caledonia, but is quite distinct in color, and has a narrower head, more angulate epinotum, etc. The thorax of ''howensis'' is more like that of several Fijian species (''mayrellus'', ''mandella'' and ''janus'') recently described by Mann, but all these forms have a differently shaped head and coloration. ''C. conithorax'' Emery of the New Hebrides is also related to ''howensis'' but is somewhat smaller, has 6-toothed mandibles, is more opaque, and the thorax and petiole have a different shape.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 104, catalogue)<br />
*McArthur, A.J. ; Shattuck, S. O. 2001. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 125: 25-43 (page 33, see also)<br />
*Wheeler, W. M. 1927i. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 121-153 (page 152, fig. 12 worker described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_hartogi&diff=209588Camponotus hartogi2013-05-21T06:06:40Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus hartogi''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. hartogi'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus hartogi''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1902<br />
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*''[[Camponotus ferruginipes]]'' Crawley, 1922<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>hartogi.</span> Camponotus hartogi'' Forel, 1902h: 500 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1974a: 61 (l.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmepomis''): Forel, 1914a: 273; in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 111. Senior synonym of ''ferruginipes'': Brown, 1956a: 40.<br />
*''ferruginipes. Camponotus (Myrmosaga) ferruginipes'' Crawley, in Poulton & Crawley, 1922: 125 (s.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 111. Junior synonym of ''hartogi'': Brown, 1956a: 40.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker (Probably media) Length 9 mm. Mandibles short, the outer border a little curved, probably armed with 6 teeth, punctate and finely shagreen. Clypeus weakly convex scarcely sub lobed (rounded lobe) strongly indented in the middle of the anterior border and also laterally, without a keel, the sides diverging strongly to the front. Frontal ridges indistinct; frontal groove distinct. Frontal ridges strongly sinuous and diverging. The eyes at 2/5 of the posterior. The head as wide as long, in a short trapeze, rounded; posterior border weakly and widely concave. The scapes pass the occiput by 1/4 of their length. Pronotum wider than long, flat above, margined at the front and sides except for the posterior angles flatter and less shouldered than ''ethicus'' of Madigascar. Mesonotum sub depressed, sub edged. Metanotum compressed; basal face sub bordered three times as wide as long, twice as long as the declivity. Node very thick, convex in front and behind, with an obtuse border. Tibias cylindrical, with a range of little spines. Sub opaque (micans). Head and pronotum densely reticulate punctate; the remainder rather shagreen or wrinkled transversely. Punctation very sparse and very fine, almost none at all except on the gaster and front of the head. Pilosity erect reddish yellow, sparse on the body and scapes, none on the limbs. Pubescence is flat lying and sparse, fine and very distinct everywhere. Black; limbs red; borders of the gastric segments yellow.<br />
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Yarra Districts, Victoria.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Brown, W. L., Jr. 1956c. Some synonymies in the ant genus Camponotus. Psyche (Camb.) 63: 38-40 (page 40, Senior synonym of ferrunginipes)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 111, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 500, worker described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 273, Combination in C. (Myrmepomis))<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1974a. Ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae: third supplement. J. Ga. Entomol. Soc. 9: 59-64 (page 61, larva described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_gouldianus&diff=209587Camponotus gouldianus2013-05-21T06:02:47Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus gouldianus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. gouldianus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus gouldianus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1922<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>gouldianus.</span> Camponotus (Myrmophyma) gouldianus'' Forel, 1922: 100 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Shattuck & McArthur, 2002: 73 (s.).<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker minor. Length: about 8mm. A relative of ''cinereus'' Mayr. Mandibles strongly curved, short, glossy and shiny, with widely spaced points, armed with 6 teeth. Head without the mandibles 1.5 times longer than wide, sides convex almost parallel; almost as wide at the front as behind. Behind the eyes, which are small but very convex, and situated at the posterior third of the sides, the edges of the head form a simple posterior convexity without trace of an angle and directly rejoin the occipital articulation. Clypeus careened with a short anterior lobe. Frontal carinae long and as close to each other at the front as at the back, but distant in the middle by a concavity. Scapes surpass the occiput by 2.5 times their length. Promesonotum is very convex like a camels back; the basal face is much longer than the declivity. Pronotum is nearly as long as the mesonotum, but almost not convex. The node on the petiole is very long (thick), longer towards its base than its height and width, a little inclined to the front; summit rounded. Limbs long; tibias without barbs.<br />
The whole body and limbs are sub opaque, very finely and densely reticulate punctate, covered with erect hairs which are reddish, quite short (a little oblique on the tibias) and the pubescence is more or less abundant, with a grayish aspect.<br />
Black, limbs, antennae and the border of the mandibles dark russet red.<br />
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Sealake, Victoria, Australia per M Gould.<br />
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In my sub genera described in 1914, I was very wrong to give ''ephippium'' as a type of the sub genus ''Myrmecameleus'' without knowing its worker major which has been revealed since then to be a ''Myrmophyma''. I admit guilt in this respect and recognize at the same time with M Emery ''C. capito'' as a type of ''Mymophyma'' but is that sufficient reason to suppress the sub genus ''Myrmocameleus'' relating to those of the Australian species of which the vertex is not at all renfle in the case of the major worker. I permit to allow myself to doubt this and maintain my sub genus ''Myrmocameleus'' giving to it the type ''C. gambeyi'' Emery of which the worker major is known. As for ''C. gouldianus'' let us wait for the worker major to be discovered before we pronounce on this.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Forel, A. 1922b. Glanures myrmécologiques en 1922. Rev. Suisse Zool. 30: 87-102 (page 100, worker described)<br />
*Shattuck, S. O.; McArthur, A. J. 2002. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus wiederkehri and perjurus species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 126: 63-90 (page 73, figs. 20-24 major, minor described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_gibbinotus&diff=209586Camponotus gibbinotus2013-05-21T05:53:59Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus gibbinotus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. gibbinotus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus gibbinotus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1902<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>gibbinotus.</span> Camponotus gibbinotus'' Forel, 1902h: 498 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1915b: 102 (s.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmogonia''): Forel, 1914a: 209; in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 111; in ''C. (Thlipsepinotus''): Santschi, 1928e: 483.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker minor 5.6-6 mm long. Mandibles edged, glossy, armed with 5 teeth, punctate. The clypeus keeled or sub keeled, anterior lobe short, large, very convex. Head sub rectangular, 1/4 longer than wide, sides convex, wider behind than in front, posterior border quite straight. Frontal ridges sinuous, converging. Frontal area large, quite indistinct. Eyes large, towards the posterior third. Scapes surpass the occiput by about half their length. Pronotum sub depressed; meso metanotal (= meso propodeal) suture almost obsolete. The declivity of the metanotum (= propodeum)is strongly elevated; which makes the thorax very humped behind. Metanotum (= propodeum) very compressed, very narrow. Node is thick with a sharp border. Tibias cylindrical with a range of spines. Glossy, weakly shagreen. Sparse punctation quite distinct on cheeks. 3 or 4 yellow hairs on the body; pubescence very dilute and very fine. Limbs and scapes without erect hairs. Thorax and front of head reddish yellow. Vertex, gaster, antennae and tarsi have a little brown. Coxa, femurs and tibias a whitish yellow.<br />
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Forel,A. (1915)<br />
Broome, Kimberley District, Perth, Western Australia.<br />
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Major worker. (Not yet described) Length 8.3-9.9 mm. Mandibles with 6 teeth. Clypeus with a short lobe on the anterior border, longer than with ''evae'', the whole length of the anterior border is crenulate. Clypeus is distinctly keeled. Head similar to the worker major of ''evae'' but the posterior margin is less concave and the top of the head is not swollen; also the sides are not as straight, but the head is longer than wide. Thorax exactly as the minor worker; node a little higher and thinner. Scape of the antennae definitely extends over the posterior head. Color darker than the minor worker: Head thorax and node pale red brown, gaster nearly black, segments red yellow. Of course the worker majors from Perth and their minors are a little darker with more or less brown gaster. The differences between the minor and major workers is less distinct in this species compared with ''evae'', additionally because the head of the minor has no sharp sides and posterior edge. The major worker of ''evae'' appears as proof of a transition from ''Myrmogonia'' to ''Myrmophyma''.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 111, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 498, worker described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 209?, Combination in C. (Myrmogonis))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 102, soldier described)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 483, Combination in C. (Thlipsepinotus))<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Colobopsis_gasseri&diff=209434Colobopsis gasseri2013-05-17T01:55:42Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus gasseri''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. gasseri'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus gasseri''<br />
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*''[[Camponotus gasseri caloratus]]'' Wheeler, W.M., 1934<br />
*''[[Camponotus gasseri lysias]]'' Forel, 1913<br />
*''[[Camponotus gasseri obtusitruncatus]]'' Forel, 1902<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>gasseri.</span> Colobopsis gasseri'' Forel, 1894e: 233 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1902h: 507 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1953e: 190 (l.). Combination in ''Camponotus (Colobopsis''): Forel, 1902h: 507; Forel, 1912i: 90. Senior synonym of ''caloratus, lysias, obtusitruncatus'': McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 31.<br />
*''obtusitruncatus. Camponotus (Colobopsis) gasseri'' r. ''obtusitrumcatus'' Forel, 1902h: 508 (s.w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA. [''C. gasseri'' subsp. ''obtusitruncatus'': Emery, 1925b: 148; justified emendation of spelling.] Junior synonym of ''gasseri'': McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 31.<br />
*''lysias. Camponotus (Colobopsis) gasseri'' var. ''lysias'' Forel, 1913g: 193 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of ''gasseri'': McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 31.<br />
*''caloratus. Camponotus (Colobopsis) gasseri'' subsp. ''caloratus'' Wheeler, W.M. 1934d: 162 (s.w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of ''gasseri'': McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 31.<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major. Length 6.5 mm. Mandibles short, obtuse, armed with about 7 teeth, dull, a little silky, abundantly punctate, densely striated wrinkled lengthwise, and in addition finely reticulate-punctate. Head is distinctly longer then wide and wider behind than in front, in the form of a trapeze, and at the posterior border slightly concave (almost straight). Eyes situated at the posterior fourth of the head near the sides.<br />
The head is truncated at the front. The truncated surface is small, short, concave, less raised up than the front and does not reach the sides of the head and comprises only the middle part of the cheeks; It is at least two times wider than long and is not distinctly bordered. The clypeus is strongly indented in two places in front, rounded in the middle, a little projecting at the middle of the anterior border,at the middle..........a little wider behind than at the front, provided with a large median longitudinal furrow at the bottom of which is found a small longitudinal ridge. The portion of the clypeus situated behind the truncation is at least twice as wide as long. The frontal area is small, insignificant. Frontal ridges are wide apart, very divergent converging towards the border of the head. There are 3 distinct pits in place of the occelli.<br />
The antennae are thick and short. The segments 5 to 10 of the funiculus are scarcely as long as wide.<br />
The thorax short, very rounded and very convex in all directions. Profoundly indented between the mesonotum and metanotum (= propodeum?); the intermediary segment is very short and is situated entirely at the bottom of the indentation. The pronotum and mesonotum combine to form a strong hump, a little longer than wide. The pro-mesonotal suture is deeply impressed. The metanotum (= propodeum?) forms at its side also a strong and short hump wider than long which does not show a distinct boundary between the basal face and the declivity; the declivity is the longer. The node is low, thick, very wide (twice as wide as high) very wide at the summit which is widely indented and thick. Gaster large, elongated. The limbs are short, subcylindrical and rather thick. The tibias are without small barbs.<br />
Moderately glossy, rather feebly shagreen (Transversely wrinkled on the gaster, reticulated on the thorax and the back of the head). Punctation sparse, piligerous, distinct on the head and still visible on the thorax but not on the gaster. The anterior 2/3 of the head is dull or silky, densely finely reticulate punctate. From the insertions of the antennae up to the outside border, the front of the head in addition is grossly wrinkled or striated lengthwise. At the front, the striations are more fine and closer together; at the sides and only passes the truncation by a little . Pilosity erect sparse and almost absent. Some yellow setae at the two extremities of the body. Flat lying pubescence extremely short, very sparse, situated at the base of the sparse barbs, more visible on the limbs and on the scape, none on the gaster. Of a brownish black. Limbs and scapes brown. The front of the head, the mandibles and segments of the antennae a darkish red or red-brown. The segments of the gaster are bordered yellow-red.<br />
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Queen. Length 4.2 to 4.5 mm. Mandibles narrowed, glossy, scarcely punctated, armed with 5 to 6 teeth ?. The form of the head is similar to the major worker, but without truncation and with a convex clypeus, without a keel, sublobed (wide lobe rounded and very short), with a distinct median impression in the posterior third. Antennae thick. Segments 8 to 10 as wide as long. The scape surpasses the occiput by 1/5 of its length. The frontal ridges are wide apart, more wide apart than they are long, they are nearer to the central ridge than the sides of the head. The head is wider behind than in front and is a little convex at its posterior border.<br />
Thorax as in the major worker, but the mesonotum is much more narrow and much less convex. The indentation is still deeper and above all wider; in the prominent middle of the dorsum there are 2 stigmata, like 2 sharp teeth. The metanotum (= propodeum) forms a hump still stronger and more elevated than the major worker, also as wide as long and with a strong declivity as convex in front as behind. Node very thick, very short, wide, thick and convex at the summit (no indentation). The rest is like the worker major but the front of the head is rather glossy or sub-opaque and does not have the large wrinkles and is reticulated (but not reticulate-punctate). Some setae on the head and on the back of the gaster. Completely black, with mandibles of a yellowish red, the limbs and scapes of a very dark brown, the funiculus and the articulations of the limbs are a light reddish brown and just the segments of the gaster are bordered yellow. The rest is identical with the worker major.<br />
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Perth, Western Australia. (M Chase)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Forel, A. 1894e. Quelques fourmis de Madagascar (récoltées par M. le Dr. Voltzkow); de Nouvelle Zélande (récoltées par M. W. W. Smith); de Nouvelle Calédonie (récoltées par M. Sommer); de Queensland (Australie) (récoltées par M. Wiederkehr); et de Perth (page 233, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 507, queen described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 507, Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis))<br />
*Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 90, Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis))<br />
*McArthur, A.J. ; Shattuck, S. O. 2001. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 125: 25-43 (page 31, Senior synonym of caloratus, lysias and obtusitruncatus)<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1953e. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae. Part II. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 46: 175-217 (page 190, larva described)<br />
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<div>{{Italic title}}<br />
{{Species page intro}}<br />
{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus froggatti''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. froggatti'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus froggatti''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1902<br />
}}<br />
==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
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==Castes==<br />
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==Nomenclature==<br />
{{Nomenclature}}<br />
*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>froggatti.</span> Camponotus froggatti'' Forel, 1902h: 504 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 218 (l.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmosaga''): Forel, 1912i: 92; in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1920b: 257. See also: Santschi, 1928e: 482.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Workers length 4.4-6mm<br />
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Worker major. Mandibles short, obtuse, armed with 5 teeth, punctate, finely shagreen, sub opaque, with some striations. The clypeus without a carina, median part much wider than long, the sides diverging a little, without anterior lobe, the anterior border tri dented. The median indentation is narrow and small. Frontal area distinct. Antennae insertions are very close to the posterior of the clypeus. Frontal carinae are sinuous, strongly diverging. The scapes pass the head by 1/6 of their length. The head is very convex, almost as wide as long, a little concave behind where it has its greatest width. very moderately narrowed at the front, sides quite convex, obtuse at the front, but not truncate. Thorax short; pronotum slightly imprinted at the front in the middle, with anterior angles rounded, but sub bordered, in other respects convex. Mesonotum a little sub bordered; the anterior border exceeds the level of the pronotum. The basal face of the metanotum (= propodeum) moderately narrow without a surface; in profile strongly concave in a saddle form towards the posterior third resembling ''C. quadrimaculatus'' and ''kelleri'' of Madigascar, but in the case of the latter the concavity is in the middle and wider. The declivity is short and abrupt. The node is very thick, as thick at the summit as at the base, with a summit which is very convex representing a border. Cylindrical tibias, without trace of barbs (except for those at the extremities).<br />
Glossy, weakly shagreen. Some large pits sparse on the clypeus and cheeks. Apart from that the punctation is sparse, fine and not obvious. Pilosity erect, yellow, very sparse on the body, none on the limbs. Pubescence very fine, very short very sparse.<br />
Black; coxa and femurs very pale yellow; tibias and base of the coxa and femurs brown. Mandibles, antennae and the anterior border of the head a yellowish brown. The borders of the gastric segments, yellow.<br />
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Worker minor. Head trapezoidal, strongly widened behind, a little longer than wide, sub pressed behind the eyes with a rather distinct margin (a little less than in the case of ''ephippium'') from the eye to the occipital angle. The head, being widened behind, does not appear compressed but under the above mentioned edge , its posterior inferior lateral part is depressed which one can see by looking at it from underneath. Maxillary palps long, exceeding occiput by a little. The scapes surpass the head by 1/3 their length. The thorax is exactly like the major but in the minor the anterior impression of the pronotum becomes invisible. The clypeus is more convex than the major, sub careened, sub lobed (rounded lobe), scarcely indented in the middle of its anterior border. Front of head has almost no big pits; the mandibles, antennae and the anterior border of the head yellow red. In other respects the pilosity, pubescence and color and the remainder of the form is like the major.<br />
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Wollongbar, Richmond River, New South Wales. (Froggatt)<br />
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This species is quite particular. The head edged and sub depressed behind in the case of the minor worker relates it to ''ephippium'' while other characters make it closer to ''quadrimaculatus''. But the mandibles with 5 teeth, the short and wide form of the clypeus and the insertions of the antennae give it a separate place.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 100, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 504, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 92, combination in C. (Myrmosaga))<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 482, see also)<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61: 205-222 (page 218, larva described)<br />
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus froggatti''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. froggatti'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus froggatti''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1902<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
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==Castes==<br />
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==Nomenclature==<br />
{{Nomenclature}}<br />
*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>froggatti.</span> Camponotus froggatti'' Forel, 1902h: 504 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 218 (l.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmosaga''): Forel, 1912i: 92; in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1920b: 257. See also: Santschi, 1928e: 482.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Workers length 4.4-6mm<br />
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Worker major. Mandibles short, obtuse, armed with 5 teeth, punctate, finely shagreen, sub opaque, with some striations. The clypeus without a carina, median part much wider than long, the sides diverging a little, without anterior lobe, the anterior border tri dented. The median indentation is narrow and small. Frontal area distinct. Antennae insertions are very close to the posterior of the clypeus. Frontal carinae are sinuous, strongly diverging. The scapes pass the head by 1/6 of their length. The head is very convex, almost as wide as long, a little concave behind where it has its greatest width. very moderately narrowed at the front, sides quite convex, obtuse at the front, but not truncate. Thorax short; pronotum slightly imprinted at the front in the middle, with anterior angles rounded, but sub bordered, in other respects convex. Mesonotum a little sub bordered; the anterior border exceeds the level of the pronotum. The basal face of the metanotum (= propodeum) moderately narrow without a surface; in profile strongly concave in a saddle form towards the posterior third resembling ''C. quadrimaculatus'' and ''kelleri'' of Madigascar, but in the case of the latter the concavity is in the middle and wider. The declivity is short and abrupt. The node is very thick, as thick at the summit as at the base, with a summit which is very convex representing a border. Cylindrical tibias, without trace of barbs (except for those at the extremities).<br />
Glossy, weakly shagreen. Some large pits sparse on the clypeus and cheeks. Apart from that the punctation is sparse, fine and not obvious. Pilosity erect, yellow, very sparse on the body, none on the limbs. Pubescence very fine, very short very sparse.<br />
Black; coxa and femurs very pale yellow; tibias and base of the coxa and femurs brown. Mandibles, antennae and the anterior border of the head a yellowish brown. The borders of the gastric segments, yellow.<br />
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Worker minor. Head trapezoidal, strongly widened behind, a little longer than wide, sub pressed behind the eyes with a rather distinct margin (a little less than in the case of ''ephippium'') from the eye to the occipital angle. The head, being widened behind, does not appear compressed but under the above mentioned edge , its posterior inferior lateral part is depressed which one can see by looking at it from underneath. Maxillary palps long, exceeding occiput by a little. The scapes surpass the head by 1/3 their length. The thorax is exactly like the major but in the minor the anterior impression of the pronotum becomes invisible. The clypeus is more convex than the major, sub careened, sub lobed (rounded lobe), scarcely indented in the middle of its anterior border. Front of head has almost no big pits; the mandibles, antennae and the anterior border of the head yellow red. In other respects the pilosity, pubescence and color and the remainder of the form is like the major.<br />
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Wollongbar, Richmond River, New South Wales. (Froggatt)<br />
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This species is quite particular. The head edged and sub depressed behind in the case of the minor worker relates it to ''ephippium'' while other characters make it closer to ''Quadrimaculatus''. But the mandibles with 5 teeth, the short and wide form of the clypeus and the insertions of the antennae give it a separate place.<br />
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==References==<br />
{{NGC-CD}}<br />
*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 100, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 504, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 92, combination in C. (Myrmosaga))<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 482, see also)<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61: 205-222 (page 218, larva described)<br />
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus fieldellus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. fieldellus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus fieldellus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1910<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
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==Castes==<br />
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==Nomenclature==<br />
{{Nomenclature}}<br />
*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>fieldellus.</span> Camponotus fieldellus'' Forel, 1910b: 79 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1915: 100 (m.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Forel, 1912i: 91.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Workers length 7.5-10 mm.<br />
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Worker major. Mandibles short, very thick, strongly curved, sub opaque, densely and finely striated with large sparse points, armed with 6 (visible) teeth. Clypeus trapezoidal, wide at front, without a lobe, widely bidented, without a distinct median indentation between the dents. Frontal area small, indistinct, rhombiform, frontal carinae strongly diverging; frontal groove deeply impressed. The head extremely thick, square, 3.3 mm long and 3.2 mm wide; viewed from the front the posterior border is straight (excavated behind when seen from the top), sides straight, the posterior angles distinct, in a short rounded curve; cheeks convex and the head narrows in front of them. Viewed from the front, the head presents a strong median posterior hump between the vertex and occiput (corresponding to the hump of ''C.sponsorum''), but more extended. The cheeks are humped to the front and to the side, very noticeable. The eyes a little forward of the posterior third. The scape, strongly curved, reaches the occiput or exceeds it slightly. Pronotum is twice as wide as long. There is a profound suture between the pronotum and mesonotum. Basal face of the epinotum is very wide, 1.5 times longer than wide, straight in profile but convex transversely, without an edge, as long as the declivity with which it forms a very rounded angle. Node is very wide, flat at the back, convex in front with a sharp border. The tibias are cylindrical, with numerous strong barbs dark brown on the inside surface.<br />
Quite glossy, finely shagreen; clypeus sub opaque, more strongly shagreen. Punctations very sparse very distinct on front of the head and gaster, but faded elsewhere. Some sparse red bristles on the body; limbs without erect hairs. Pubescence entirely flat lying, yellow, very thin everywhere.<br />
Dark black; funicles and extremities of the tarses brown.<br />
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Worker minor. The head is rectangular, longer than wide, the sides sub rectangular and compressed, the posterior edge is weakly convex and the posterior angles are distinct, slightly widened at the back. Mandibles narrow, quite glossy, punctated, the outer edge almost straight. The clypeus strongly projecting in front into a rounded lobe; very wide at the front, entire and sub careened. There is no elevated hump at the vertex or at the cheeks. The scape exceeds the occiput by 3/5 of its length. Pronotum narrower than the major worker, sub margined at the front. Promesonotal suture, etc, similar to the major worker, but the basal face of the epinotum is twice as long as the declivity which is a little concave in profile. The node is very thick, as thick at the top as at the bottom and nodiform at the summit.<br />
The sculpture and pilosity erect like the major worker, but the whole body especially the gaster is covered with a down of quite strong yellowish gray pubescence which partly hides the sculpture. Same color as the major worker, but the funicles and extremities of the mandibles reddish.<br />
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Female 13.5mm.....not yet translated.<br />
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Tennants Creek Central Australia (Field)<br />
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The species is a relative of ''capito'' Mayr but differs from it by the hump on the cheeks, by its square head which is not trapezoidal, the form of the clypeus, its black color and sculpture. The hump at the back of the head is also more occipital, much less however than ''sponsorum''. ''C. fieldellus'' is also related to ''C. tasmani'' Forel of which the minor worker is only known. But ''tasmani'' has a body and limbs bristling with erect hairs, red thorax, the sides of the head more compressed and especially a sharp margin behind the eye which does not occur with the minor worker of ''fieldellus''.<br />
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==References==<br />
{{NGC-CD}}<br />
*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 99, catalogue)<br />
*Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Rev. Suisse Zool. 18: 1-94 (page 79, soldier, worker, queen described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 91, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 100, male described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_fieldeae&diff=209427Camponotus fieldeae2013-05-17T00:07:06Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus fieldeae''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. fieldeae'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus fieldeae''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1902<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
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==Castes==<br />
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==Nomenclature==<br />
{{Nomenclature}}<br />
*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>fieldeae.</span> Camponotus fieldeae'' Forel, 1902h: 495 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C''. (''Myrmoturba''): Forel, 1914a: 267; in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Emery, 1925b: 90.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Workers. Length 4.7-8 mm. Very similar to ''C. extensus'' while being smaller.<br />
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Worker major. Mandibles strongly curved on the outer edge, smooth and glossy towards the extremities, weakly shagreen towards the base, with scattered or sparse points and probably 7 teeth. The head is trapezoidal, the sides convex, strongly widened and indented behind, more widened behind and shorter than ''extensus''. Clypeus keeled, the lobe like ''extensus'' is a little indented in the middle of its anterior edge. Thorax much shorter than ''extensus''; pronotum much wider than long; the declivity of the metanotum (= propodeum) only a little shorter than the basal face; metanotum (= propodeum) not so low. The node is a little less thick. Limbs and antennae shorter.<br />
The head is entirely dull, densely reticulate punctate; thorax a little more sub opaque; gaster moderately glossy. The tibias and scapes have short hairs, semi erect, abundant. The rest of the sculpture as with extensus. Pubescence is very dilute.<br />
The color is dark brown, the limbs, mandibles and the funicles a light brown.<br />
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Worker minor. The head has a distinct posterior border (not like ''extensus''), only 1/4 to 1/3 longer than wide (with ''extensus'' the length is almost twice the width) and as wide at the back as it is at the front (very narrow behind in the case of ''extensus''). Pronotum with width equal to its length (with ''extensus'' length is longer than width). In other respects the thorax is like the major worker. Node half as thin as ''extensus''. Sculpture, pilosity and color like the major worker. Clypeus with an anterior lobe which is very rectangular, with a straight border, and sharply keeled.<br />
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Charters Towers, Queensland (Wiederhehr)<br />
A variety with a little weaker sculpture (head sub opaque), with thorax a little more convex and the declivity shorter, in other respects identical with the specimen from Townsville, Queensland from M Gilbert Turner<br />
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A species closely related to ''extensus'' but with the stature of the group ''maculatus'' from which it differs by its pilosity.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 99, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 90, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 495, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 267, combination in C. (Myrmoturba))<br />
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{{Taxobox<br />
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|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. macrocephalus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus macrocephalus''<br />
|binomial_authority = (Erichson, 1842)<br />
|synonyms =<br />
*''[[Camponotus fictor]]'' Forel, 1902<br />
*''[[Camponotus fictor augustulus]]'' Viehmeyer, 1925<br />
*''[[Colobopsis rufifrons semicarinata]]'' Forel, 1895<br />
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''Camponotus macrocephalus'' is generally found nesting in branches of trees and shrubs in eastern Australia.<br />
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Major and minor workers (images by Archie McArthur, SAM (Adelaide)).<br />
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A minor worker cleaning its antenna using a special structure on its front leg (image by Steve Shattuck).<br />
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==Identification==<br />
Mandibles in major workers smooth, with shallow fovae, rugae weak and limited to anterior region of dorsal surface of the mandible. Few long, erect setae on head and gaster, none elsewhere. In lateral view, dorsal surfaces of pronotum, mesonotum and propodeum form a continuous weakly convex surface, the posterior propodeal face mostly straight.<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Nomenclature==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>macrocephalus.</span> Formica macrocephala'' Erichson, 1842: 259 (q.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''Iridomyrmex'': Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 100; in ''Camponotus'': Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122. Senior synonym of ''fictor'': Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122; of ''augustulus, semicarinata'': McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 38. See also: Shattuck, 1992a: 16.<br />
*''semicarinata. Colobopsis rufifrons'' r. ''semicarinata'' Forel, 1895f: 418 (s.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''Camponotus (Colobopsis''): Forel, 1902h: 508. Raised to species: Forel, 1902h: 508. Junior synonym of ''macrocephalus'': McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 38.<br />
*''fictor. Camponotus (Colobopsis) fictor'' Forel, 1902h: 508 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 217 (l.). Junior synonym of ''macrocephalus'' Erichson: Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122.<br />
*''augustulus. Camponotus (Colobopsis) fictor'' subsp. ''augustulus'' Viehmeyer, 1925b: 145 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Material of the unavailable name ''continentalis'' referred here: Viehmeyer, 1925b: 145. Subspecies of ''macrocephalus'': Bolton, 1995b: 87. Junior synonym of ''macrocephalus'': McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 38.<br />
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==Description==<br />
Major worker. In lateral view. Yellow brown, gaster sometimes darker, limbs, especially coxa very much lighter than mesosoma. Head: Side with no erect setae, anterior sharply truncated; posterior glossy, smooth; anterior striations extending from truncation nearly half way to eye; vertex with few long setae; underside of head without erect setae, with very sparse short, flat-lying setae. Mesosoma: Without erect setae. Pronotum and Mesonotum: Evenly convex. Metanotum: Wide trough, spiracle well below dorsum. Propodeum: Dorsum evenly curved, angle rounded; declivity mostly straight; ratio dorsum/declivity, approximately 1; spiracle well forward of declivity, closer to coxa than dorsum, surrounded by indistinct reticulate integument, glossy, without pilosity. Node: Without setae, anterior face lower half straight, upper evenly convex; summit blunt; posterior face straight. Gaster: Glossy, indistinctly striate. Fore femur: Swollen. Mid tibia: Without erect setae, with sparse, flat-lying pubescence, without bristles inside. In dorsal view. Head: Nearly rectangular, sides straight, parallel; vertex straight, angles blunt; scape with very sparse, short, flat-lying setae. Frontal carinae mostly straight, diverging, posterior very wide. Frontal area, very small, depressed; clypeus sides bordered by sharp ridge, narrow, widest at truncation, sides nearly straight, tapering anteriorly, grossly ridged longitudinally, similar to cheeks, three fourths of clypeus anterior to truncation. Anterior head comprising clypeus, mandibles and cheeks lie on flat circular plane; max HW at eye centre; eyes oval. Clypeus: Without erect setae, carina present within striations; anterior margin narrow, projecting, evenly convex. In front or rear view. Node: Summit wide, slightly indented, without setae. <br />
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Minor worker. Head: Brownish yellow to brown, limbs and antennae more yellowish, much lighter than mesosoma; side of head, mesosoma, node yellow brown; vertex with few setae; underside of head without erect setae. Mesosoma: Glossy, microscopically reticulate, without pilosity. Pronotum: Anterior and posterior thirds straight, centre third convex. Mesonotum: Mostly straight, slightly raised above pronotum and propodeum. Metanotum: Slight ridge; spiracle near middle of side. Propodeum: Dorsum straight to flatly convex, angle abrupt; declivity nearly straight, ratio dorsum/declivity about 1.5; spiracle situated midway between dorsum and coxa, glossy, surrounded by microscopic reticulation. Node: Without pilosity, anterior face lower half straight, convex above; summit sharp; posterior face straight. Gaster: Finely striate. Fore femur: Swollen. Mid tibia: With indistinct, sparse, short, flat-lying setae, without bristles inside. In dorsal view. Head: Sides straight, slightly tapering to front; vertex and angles form even convexity; scape with indistinct, sparse, short, flat setae; frontal carinae wide, diverging; frontal area indistinct, diamond shaped; max HW just posterior to eye centre. Clypeus: Glossy, finely reticulate, few sparse, erect, setae, carina indistinct; anterior margin, convex, wide, projecting. In front or rear view. Node: Summit wide, sometimes indented, without setae.<br />
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'''''Original descriptions'''''<br />
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''Camponotus fictor'' Forel,A. (1902).<br />
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Major. Length 6 to 6.7 mm. Head 1/3 longer than wide (1/5 in the case of semicarinatus) Clypeus feebly keeled, extending from one end of the clypeus to the other. The front of the head is clearly wrinkled lengthwise, not rugose (wrinkled-reticulate) in the case of semicarinatus.<br />
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QUEEN Length 3.5 to 5 mm. Head elongated, almost a quarter longer than wide (almost square in the case of semicarinatus). In addition the head of the worker is not truncated in front, whereas in the case of ''semicarinatus'' it is at least as truncated (obtusely) as ''C. truncatus'' queen of Europe; the difference is quite specific. The head of ''C. fictor'' minor is like an ordinary. Camponotus head, only the clypeus, is sub-keeled, a strong and rounded lobe which is almost absent in the case of ''carinatus''. The thorax is as convex; the basal face of the metanotum (= propodeum) is longer than the declivity, terminating in a clear strong angle. The face of the declivity is a little concave and edged and ends in a point above the angle which projects even slightly. In ''semicarinatus'', the declivity undergoes an abrupt but rounded curve at the basal face which is much shorter. The metanotum (= propodeum) of ''C. fictor'' reminds one of ''C. conicus'' Mayr while being much less accentuated.<br />
The node is a little thicker, strongly convex at front, flat at back, with a very sharp edge, slightly indented at the summit. In the case of ''semicarinatus'' it is much lower and much less thick. Sculpture (except for wrinkles at the front of the head) pilosity and color are identical with ''semicarinatus''.<br />
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New Castle, Native Dog Bore N S Wales (Froggatt)<br />
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45(b) Formica macrocephala Erichson, W F. (1842).<br />
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Dark brown, gray-silky, elongated head, emarginate at the base, testaceous, pale legs.(Female) Length 5 lines.<br />
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Closely resembling F.cylindricae Latr., dark brown, sparse (grisea) silky pubescence. Head wider than the thorax, oblong with straight sides, emarginate at the base, the posterior angles are very prominent, punctations overall are feeble and a red brick color. Thorax narrowed, compressed, brick colored underneath. The node is small, low and subemarginate at the apex. The abdomen is rather long, very large and subdepressed dorsally. Legs are a pale brick color. The wings are elongate, transparent,stigmata dark brown,pale nerves, with 3 cubital cells anteriorally and a single discoidal cell. <br />
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==Measurements==<br />
PW 1.0 mm, HT 1.2 mm, EL 0.4 mm, HW 1.4 mm, HL 1.8 mm, CAR W 0.8 mm, CLY W 0.6 mm, TL 0.9 mm, NW 0.55 mm.<br />
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* CAR W = maximum frontal carina width<br />
* CLY W = clypeus width measured between tentorial pits<br />
* EL = eye length in dorsal view<br />
* HW = maximum head width in dorsal view<br />
* HT = maximum head thickness in lateral view<br />
* HL = head length measured from anterior margin of clypeus to vertex<br />
* PW = maximum pronotal width in dorsal view<br />
* NW = node width in dorsal view<br />
* TL = length of mid tibiae. <br />
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==Taxonomy==<br />
Forel (1902) distinguished semicarinatus from macrocephalus (as fictor) by differences in the shape of the head, propodeum and petiolar node and in having the sculpturing on the truncated portion of the clypeus “more clearly lengthwise and not wrinkled-reticulate as in the case of semicarinatus.” Viehmeyer (1925) described the subspecies augustulus as having “head of the major worker noticeably narrower than in the type, the truncate surface of the anterior head less sharply delineated and less concave, and the longitudinal grooves of the head and clypeus much stronger”. However, the currently available material shows considerable variation in all of these characters and we can find no justification for recognising the subspecies separately from C. macrocephalus. For separation from the closely related C. howensis, see Remarks under that species.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Erichson, W. F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-Fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Arch. Naturgesch. 8 (1): 83-287 (page 259, queen described)<br />
*McArthur, A.J. ; Shattuck, S. O. 2001. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 125: 25-43 (page 38, Senior synonym of augustulus and semicarinata)<br />
*Shattuck, S. O. 1992a. Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 31: 13-18 (page 16, see also)<br />
*Shattuck, S. O.; McArthur, A. J. 1995. Generic placements of Australian ants described by W. F. Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 34: 121-123 (page 122, Combination in Camponotus)<br />
*Shattuck, S. O.; McArthur, A. J. 1995. Generic placements of Australian ants described by W. F. Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 34: 121-123 (page 122, Senior synonym of fictor)<br />
*Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 100, Combination in Iridomyrmex)<br />
*Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 26: 137-241 (page 169, soldier described)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 259, Combination in C. (Pseudocolobopsis))<br />
*Emery, C. 1920d. Studi sui Camponotus. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 52: 3-48 (page 36, queen described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 90, Combination in C. (Myrmamblys))<br />
*Kempf, W. W. 1968b. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. IV. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Stud. Entomol. 11: 369-415 (page 408, Senior synonym of geralensis and luederwaldti)<br />
*Shattuck, S. O.; McArthur, A. J. 1995. Generic placements of Australian ants described by W. F. Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 34: 121-123 (page 122, C. geralensis first available replacement name for macrocephalus)<br />
===Additional References===<br />
* {{aut|Emery, C.}} (1925). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum. 183 : 1–302 [taxonomy, p. 272]<br />
* {{aut|Forel, A.}} (1902). Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 10 : 405–548 [taxonomy, p. 508]<br />
* {{aut|McArthur,A.J., Shattuck,S.O.}} (2001). A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 125 : 25–43 [taxonomy]<br />
* {{aut|Shattuck, S. O., McArthur, A. J.}} (1995). Generic placements of Australian ants described by W. F. Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society. 34 : 121–123 [taxonomy, p. 121]<br />
* {{aut|Taylor, R. W., Brown, D. R.}} (1985). Formicoidea. pp. 1–149 in Walton, D. W. Zoological catalogue of Australia, vol. 2. Hymenoptera: Formicoidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service. vi + 381 pp. [taxonomy]<br />
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus fictor augustulus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
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This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of ''[[Camponotus macrocephalus]]''.<br />
==Nomenclature==<br />
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*''augustulus. Camponotus (Colobopsis) fictor'' subsp. ''augustulus'' Viehmeyer, 1925b: 145 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Material of the unavailable name ''continentalis'' referred here: Viehmeyer, 1925b: 145. Subspecies of ''macrocephalus'': Bolton, 1995b: 87. Junior synonym of ''macrocephalus'': McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 38.<br />
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==Description==<br />
Worker (major). The head is noticeable narrower than the type and less high, with mandibles included being a 1/4 longer than the width near the eyes, The truncate surface of the anterior head is even less sharply delineated and less concave than the type, the longitudinal grooves of the head and clypeus are much stronger. The scape just reaches the posterior border of the head (with the type it surpassed it by all least its greatest thickness). The thorax somewhat weaker, the angle of the epinotum is a little more rounded. In other respects like the type. Length 6-7.5 mm.<br />
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Worker (minor). The head is about 1/3 longer than wide. Anterior head only indistinctly truncate; clypeus wider to the front not narrowing, without a distinctly separated posterior piece. Eyes bigger the scape extends beyond the posterior border of the head by a segment (as with the type). Epinotum angle sharper, less rounded. Sculpture of the anterior head much weaker,also weaker than the type. Otherwise like the worker (major).Length 5.5 mm.<br />
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Worker. Head with the same length somewhat narrower than with the type; the scape protruding past the posterior margin of the head for only about 1/4 of its length (with the type about 1/3) Otherwise like the type. Length 4-5 mm.<br />
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Female, as the worker major but the scape protruding over the posterior of the head. Mesonotum and posterior head finely reticulate and softly shining, epinotum angle strongly rounded, the node of the petiole thicker. Gaster segments with wide blackish brown connective tissue. Wings missing. Length 8.5mm. -- Nest in a dry branch of a forest tree near Trial Bay. The shape which because of the narrower head is also distinguishable from sommeri, is especially interesting because of the dimorphism of the soldier cast.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 87, Subspecies of macrocephalus, catalogue)<br />
*McArthur, A.J. ; Shattuck, S. O. 2001. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 125: 25-43 (page 38, Junior synonym of macrocephalus)<br />
*Viehmeyer, H. 1925b. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Schluss.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 139-149 (page 145, soldier, worker, queen described)<br />
*Viehmeyer, H. 1925b. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Schluss.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 139-149 (page 145, material of the unavailable name continentalis referred here.)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus extensus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. extensus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus extensus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Mayr, 1876<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>extensus.</span> Camponotus extensus'' Mayr, 1876: 65 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C''. (''Myrmoturba''): Forel, 1914a: 267; in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Emery, 1925b: 90. Subspecies of ''sexguttatus'': Forel, 1879a: 73. Revived status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 230; Emery, 1894f: 3; Emery, 1896d: 371; Emery, 1920b: 255.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker Length, 7-9 mm. Dusky, head and gaster dusky black; with head scarcely hairy but the gaster has moderate erect pilosity, most dispersed and adpressed pubescence, tibias with 4 posterior hairs short and obliquely erect: glossy, finly coriaceous with fine transverse striations. The head in the major worker especially the anterior rather punctate coriaceous: the clypeus is keeled, moderately produced in front and emarginate on both sides; thorax elongate, pronotum convex, mesonotum and basal part of the metanotum (= propodfeum), angle straight: petiole with an ovate node; limbs are moderately long and slender.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 98, catalogue)<br />
*Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 230, revived status as species)<br />
*Emery, C. 1894g. Camponotus sexguttatus Fab. e C. sexguttatus Sm. et auct. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 9(1 187: 1-4 (page 3, revived status as species)<br />
*Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)5:363-382 (page 371, revived status as species)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 255, revived status as species)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 90, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))<br />
*Forel, A. 1879a. Études myrmécologiques en 1879 (deuxième partie [1re partie en 1878]). Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 16: 53-128 (page 73, race of sexguttatus)<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 267, combination in C. (Myrmoturba))<br />
*Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 65, soldier, worker described)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus evae zeuxis''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus evae|C. evae]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. evae zeuxis'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus evae zeuxis''<br />
|trinomial_authority = Forel, 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from Australia.<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>zeuxis.</span> Camponotus (Myrmogonia) evae'' r. ''zeuxis'' Forel, 1915b: 101 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 111.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|material=workers<br />
|locality=Broome, Western Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker Length 4-4.5mm<br />
The following distinguishes it from the type. Mandibles glossy, punctate with 6 teeth. Clypeus weakly keeled. The head is less trapeze shaped, with less sharp posterior corners and more convex posterior border, the sides less distinctly compressed. The eyes are not so close to the posterior border of the head, the distance between the eye and the posterior head is equal to the diameter of the eye. The pronotum is less sharply edged. The form of the thorax is similar, the epinotum has an edge at the top and in the posterior very much compressed with a sharp separation between the basal surface and the declivity where there is a rounded angle between them. The node is somewhat higher, also thinner, sharp at the summit. The sculpture is weaker; not punctate-reticulate, but shallower, striated transversely and glossy. Only the sides of the thorax are somewhat duller and punctate-rugose. Above all the limbs possess a much longer, in fact pointed, but rather coarse, completely upstanding covering of hair, while the ''evae'' type has only crooked upstanding hair. But opposite the inner surfaces of the limbs, ''evae'' has weaker and sharper spikes. Black, with mandibles and scape brown and reddish brown funiculus and palps.<br />
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Broome (N W Australia)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 111, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 101, worker described)<br />
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|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. evae'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus evae''<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>evae.</span> Camponotus evae'' Forel, 1910b: 74 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1915b: 101 (s.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 218 (l.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmogonia''): Forel, 1914a: 269; in ''C''. (''Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 111; in ''C. (Thlipsepinotus''): Santschi, 1928e: 483. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''zeuxis''.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|statuspublication=<br />
|material=worker(s)<br />
|locality=Cape York, Queensland<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker. (Probably minor) Mandibles glossy, finely punctate, armed with only 5 teeth. Clypeus keeled, and forms at the front a short rounded lobe. Frontal area rhombiform transversely. Frontal ridges converge at the front and diverge strongly. Scape exceeds the posterior head by 2/5 of its length. Segments 2 to 10 of the funiculus are of almost equal length, the length is almost twice the thickness. Head a perfect trapeze, strongly enlarged behind, the posterior border and the sides straight (the latter almost), with posterior angles almost sharp, hardly rounded; sides are a little compressed. Eyes strongly convex, situated in the posterior quarter. Pronotum almost flat, (feebly convex) with a sharp border in front and at the side and up to the posterior third of the latter, and with the angles rounded. Mesonotum a little convex, with the dorsum like a trapeze, very narrow behind, without an edge. Sutures distinct, but without any grooving. It continues with a weak convex curve of the pronotum and the mesonotum forming at the front a narrow triangular surface, the epinotum is strongly humped, that is to say convex in front and behind and almost sharp between the anterior dorsal triangle of the basal face and the lower narrow triangle of the subvertical sloping face and is much longer than the basal face, which it joins without a boundary from the aforesaid dorsum. Node rather thick, biconvex, almost sharply cut at the side (a little convex behind). Tibias have a row of sharp spines on their internal border; They are cylindrical.<br />
Dull; densely and finely reticulate-punctate. Gaster sub-opaque, densely wrinkled-reticulate transversely; Limbs and scapes feebly chagreen, sparsely punctate and rather glossy. The gaster has sparse punctations raised up, piligerous with little bristles beneath. Pilosity erect fine, of a yellow white, sufficiently abundant on the body, of medium length. Scapes and tibias have an pubescence, adpressed on the scapes, oblique or sub erect on the tibias. Pubescence is yellow and very sparse on the body.<br />
Black. Limbs,antennae and mandibles brown. Femurs and borders of the mandibles reddish.<br />
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Cape York, Northern Australia (Rowland Turner)<br />
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About 29 workers but not one major worker. The latter remains to be discovered.<br />
A near neighbor of ''rubiginosus'' Mayr, from which it differs in color, sculpture, and a much larger epinotum and much more humped (in case of ''rubiginosus'' it has a short and triangular basal face and a declivity compressed and sub-vertical). In his description of ''rubiginosus'' Mayr forgot to mention the sharp border of the pronotum. ''C. evae'' also has a slight relationship with ''C. arcuatus'' Mayr.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 98, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 111, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Rev. Suisse Zool. 18: 1-94 (page 74, worker described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 269, combination in C. (Myrmogonia))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 101, soldier described)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 483, combination in C. (Thlipsepinotus))<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61: 205-222 (page 218, larva described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_esau&diff=209377Camponotus esau2013-05-16T05:12:37Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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|name = ''Camponotus esau''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. esau'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus esau''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>esau.</span> Camponotus (Myrmocamelus) esau'' Forel, 1915b: 103, fig. 6 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Dubiously in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 112.<br />
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*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
|publishedname=''Camponotus (Myrmocamelus) esau'' Forel, 1915<br />
|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=1 worker<br />
|locality=Ravenshoe (as Cedar Creek), Queensland<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker minor Length 5-5.5 mm. Mandibles with six sharp teeth, amply and coarsely punctated, glossy. The front edge of the clypeus is rather arc shaped, with a central keel. Frontal area weak, three cornered. Head about a fifth longer than broad at the rear, trapeze shaped, in front much narrower than behind, quite straight in front of the eyes, behind them weakly convex compressed sides, with a straight posterior border. Eyes set in about the posterior third. Frontal carinae are S shaped, rather long, in front close to one another,behind widely separated. The scape protrudes over the posterior head for about 2/5 but at least 1/3 of its length. Thorax almost somewhat wider than the head, immensely strongly hunch back convex. The peak of the convexity lies in the posterior middle and almost at the anterior margin of the basal part of the epinotum. The epinotum is curved anteriorly and the base is twice as long as the declivity into which it almost unnoticeable runs over in a slightly stronger curve. The node is equally thick above and below, slightly bent to the front, twice as high as thick with a convex top which is not quite double as wide as it is long. In front and behind straight and almost vertically cut. The gaster oval rather short. Legs without spikes, ie. with only 2 on the lower surface.<br />
Quite matt, thickly punctate and finely reticulate. Limbs finely reticulate and glossy, moreover the gaster, especially behind, fine and amply punctate. Upstanding covering of hair on the body yellowish and well scattered, rather long, lacking on the limbs (except for several short pubes on the tarsus). Pubescence ample, especially on the gaster, somewhat shining silver, as also the upstanding hair; but the flat lying hairs are not thick, although they lie close to each other when they are long. Quite black, mandibles and limbs brown, the basal half of the scape brownish red.<br />
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Cedar Creek (Queensland) This kind ''C. ephippium narses'' but it is different through the strange shape of the thorax, from all its relations especially because of the fact that the thorax hump is highest at the epinotum. For the same mentioned reason I turn only provisionally to the sub-genera ''Myrmocameleus'', until the discovery of a major worker.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 98, catalogue)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1915c. Nouvelles fourmis d'Afrique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 84: 244-282 (page 275, Nomen nudum.)<br />
*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 98, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 112, dubiously in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 103, fig. 6 worker described)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus eremicus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. eremicus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus eremicus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Wheeler, W.M., 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>eremicus.</span> Camponotus (Myrmogonia) eremicus'' Wheeler, W.M. 1915g: 815, pl. 66, figs. 5, 6 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 111; in ''C''. (''Thlipsepinotus''): Santschi, 1928e: 483.<br />
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*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
|publishedname=''Camponotus (Myrmogonia) eremicus'' Wheeler, 1915<br />
|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=2 workers<br />
|locality=Everard Range, South Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major. - Length, 7 mm. <br />
Head, trapezoidal, longer than broad, broader behind than in front, with straight, transverse posterior border and feebly convex cheeks. Eyes large, convex, their anterior orbits are the middle of the sides of the head. Mandibles 6-toothed, their outer margins straight at the base, strongly convex at the tips. Clypeus strongly carinate, its anterior border not produced or lobed, feebly and sinuately excised in the middle. Frontal area small, triangular, indistinct; frontal groove distinct; frontal carinae closely approximated anteriorly, curved, and more diverging behind. Antennae slender, scapes reaching two-fifths of their length beyond the posterior corners of the head. Pronotum as broad as long, flattened above, with a sharp semicircular ridge around its anterior surface, and extending back to the middle of its sides. Promesonotal suture pronounced; mesoepinotal suture absent, the mesonotum and epinotum together twice as long as broad, so compressed laterally as to be reduced dorsally to a rather sharp, blade-like edge. In profile the mesoepinotum is as high as long, the dorsal edge feebly and evenly convex and as long as the declivity, which is abrupt and feebly concave. Petiole rather narrow, cuneate in profile, thick below, with a distinct ventral protuberance, feebly convex anterior and straight posterior surface, and sharp apical border, which seen from behind is rounded and entire. Gaster of the usual shape. Legs rather slender; tibiae cylindrical. Shining; thorax slightly more opaque. Mandibles rather coarsely punctate; head and thorax densely puncatate-reticulate, gaster very finely, transversely rugulose. Hairs erect, short, very sparse, present only on the mandibles, clypeus, front and venter. Femora with a few bristles at their tips; tibiae with a sparse row of bristles along their flexor surfaces. Pubescence absent on the body, very short, sparse, and appressed on the tibiae and scapes. Black; mandibles, clypeus, cheeks and front deep-red; antennae and tarsi reddish-brown; coxae, femora, and tibiae yellow; knees infuscated. <br />
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Worker minor - Length, 5.5-6 mm. Body slender; head subrectangular, about as broad behind as in front, nearly one and a half times as long as broad, with straight posterior and lateral borders. Eyes large and prominent, situated at a distance less than their length from the posterior corner of the head. Clypeus carinate, its anterior border entire, subangularly produced in the middle. Antennae very slender, reaching nearly half their length beyond the posterior corners of the head. Thorax very long, narrow, and low, less compressed behind than in the major worker, in profile evenly rounded, highest in the middle, pronotum not marginate in front and on the sides, epinotum without distinct base and declivity, but merely continuing the gentle curve of the mesonotum. Petiole with its anterior surface more convex and its upper border more transverse than in the major worker. Gaster small and narrow. Sculpture much as in the major worker, but thorax more shinning and cheeks sparsely and feebly foveolate. Pilosity much more abundant than in the large worker. There are very sparse, erect hairs on the whole upper surface, including the petiole, and also on the gula. The head is covered with sparse and rather long yellowish pubescence. Head and thorax brown, peiole and gaster black; scape and legs, except the tarsi, yellow, the latter and the anterior half of the head pale-brown. <br />
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Described from a single major and three minor workers from the Everard Ranges. As all of these specimens were glued on the same card it would seem that they must have been taken from the same nest. The major and minor workers, however, differ in so many important particulars as to suggest some doubt as to their being co-specific. This species is very closely related to ''C. (Myrmogonia) michaelseni'', Forel, from the South-western Australia, judging from Forel's description, but differs in so many details of structure, sculpture, and color that I have felt constrained to describe it as new. It is more easily distinguished from the other Australian species of the subgenus ''Myrmogonia: evae'', Forel; ''oetkeri'', Forel; ''adami'', Forel; ''lownei'', Forel; ''gibbinotus'', Forel; and ''rubiginosus'', Mayr.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 97, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 111, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 483, combination in C. (Thlipsepinotus))<br />
*Wheeler, W. M. 1915h. Hymenoptera. [In "Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia".]. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 39: 805-823 (page 815, pl. 66, figs. 5, 6 soldier, worker described)<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>narses.</span> Camponotus (Myrmocamelus) ephippium'' r. ''narses'' Forel, 1915b: 103 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Crawley, 1925b: 596 (s.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 111.<br />
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===Description===<br />
Forel (1915)<br />
Worker Length : 6-8.5 mm. Smaller than the type and above all much stouter with shorter legs and antennae. Distinguished especially by its quite even black color, whereas with ephippium the promesonotum is red at the top. The sides of the head are also distinctly convex (quite straight in the type). The head is not so compressed as with ephippium type, however flattened, not as rounded as in ''cinereus'' Mayr. The epinotum is somewhat stronger, more saddle shaped than the type. The scape surpasses the posterior border of the head by more than half its length but with the type more than two thirds of its length. The covering of pubescence on the gaster is somewhat grayish gold and stronger than with the type. The node is just as thick but above somewhat more convex.<br />
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Kimberley District, Broome (NW Australia) The specimens from Broome are somewhat bigger and have a somewhat weaker covering of the gaster than those of the Kimberley District. This race seems to be polymorphic but slightly less than the type .<br />
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====Worker====<br />
Crawley (1925) - Major. Length 11 mm. (Worker 6-8.5 mm.).<br />
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Black; head, except a brown triangular patch, with its apex at the ocelli, deep red; mandibles darker red, legs brown, the posterior femora sometimes red. Borders of gastric segments testaceous.<br />
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The grey pilosity and pubescence are similar to that of the worker, but the pilosity is shorter. Tibiae and scapes without erect hairs.<br />
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Head very thick and massive, broader than the thorax, the vertex much swollen; the head is as broad as long, broadest at occiput, where the angles are only slightly rounded, almost square, and prominent in profile; the sides almost straight as far as the lower cheeks, where they converge; occipital border widely and shallowly concave. There is a slight depression between the bulge of the cheeks and the frontal carinae; the latter are nearly twice as wide apart behind as in front. Mandibles thick, with six teeth. Frontal groove distinct, reaching to a pit representing the anterior ocellus. Clypeus flatter than in the worker, feebly carinate, the anterior border slightly concave in the centre, and crenulate as in the worker. 'l'he scapes extend beyond the occiput by as much as their width.<br />
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Pronotum very broad, twice as broad as long, the mesonotum considerably narrower, convex in both directions; meso-epinotal suture distinct but faint, the base concave as in the worker, but shorter in proportion; the declivity half as long as base, more vertical than in the worker, and slightly concave.<br />
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Petiole in the form of a scale, not a node as in the worker, broad, bluntly angular at top; in profile the top is bluntly pointed. Gaster nearly as broad as head.<br />
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Moderately shining. Mandibles coarsely punctate-striate. Whole of upper surface of head covered with somewhat elongate punctures, with a fine dense ground reticulation. The sculpture becomes feebler and the punctures more scattered at the sides and at the occiput, where the surface is shining. Pro- and mesonotum with a fine ground reticulation and a few punctures, epinotum more densely reticulate and matt. Gaster more abundantly provided with small punctures and microscopically reticulate. Legs with scattered punctures.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Crawley, W. C. 1925b. New ants from Australia. - II. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(16): 577-598 (page 596, soldier described)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 111, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 103, worker described)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus ephippium''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. ephippium'''''<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>ephippium.</span> Formica ephippium'' Smith, F. 1858b: 39 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 218 (l.). Combination in ''Camponotus'': Roger, 1863b: 4; in ''C''. (''Myrmocamelus''): Forel, 1914a: 270; in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1920b: 257; Santschi, 1928e: 481. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''narses''.<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker. Length 3 lines (= 6 mm) Black: the pro- and mesothorax ferruginous above. Head oblong-quadrate, slightly narrowed towards the mouth; the eyes placed high on t he sides of the head; the antennae and mandibles ferruginous; the scape more or less fuscous; the clypeus with a central longitudinal carina; the mandibles serrated on their inner edge, with one or two stouter teeth at the apex. Thorax rounded in front and narrowed behind, the metathorax (= propodeum) sometimes slightly ferruginous; legs elongate, the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen small, ovate, covered with short pale yellow silky pubescence, interspersed with longer pale hairs; the head and thorax have also some scattered pale hairs; the scale of the peduncle subovate. <br />
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Hab. Adelaide. (Coll. F. Smith)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 97, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 270, combination in C. (Myrmocamelus))<br />
*Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berl. Entomol. Z. 7(B Beilage: 1-65 (page 4, combination in Camponotus)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 481, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. (page 39, worker described)<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61: 205-222 (page 218, larva described)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus dromas''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>dromas.</span> Camponotus (Myrmocamelus) dromas'' Santschi, 1919a: 332 (s.w.m.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 111; Santschi, 1928e: 481.<br />
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===Description===<br />
Workers length 9-12 mm.<br />
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Major worker length 12mm. Front of head and mandibles dark red. Top of pronotum and mesonotum and all of the gaster black. The remainder is red. The sculpture as in ''pellax'', ''bigenus'' and ''capito'' Mayr, but the punctation of the vertex is more sparse than in the case of ''pellax'' except behind the eyes. The vertex is smooth and very glossy. The piligerous punctation of the thorax is intermediate between ''pellax'' and ''bigenus'' with a bottom base of fine reticulation and sub matte (except for the declivity). Gaster a little more glossy with fine transverse striations. Pilosity erect and sparse, a little more abundant than ''pellax'', but much less than ''bigenus''. The pubescence is rather thin everywhere except on the sides of the thorax and epinotum where it forms a pelise not hiding the sculpture<br />
The head is square (3.5 X 3.5 mm) shaped like ''capito'' Mayr, the vertex is very concave, the clypeus is not keeled and the lobe is indented. Mandibles with 5 teeth. Posterior border straight more convex in front than ''pellax''. The profile of the thorax is similar to ''bigenus'' but the base of the epinotum is more elongated, one quarter longer than the declivity. The node is higher and more pointed and about 3 times higher than wide, convex from top to bottom in front and flat behind. Posterior tibias 3.4mm long. Scapes 2.1 mm long.<br />
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Media worker. length 10.5 mm long. Color as in the worker major, but the occiput is black, so is the promesonotum. Sculpture as in the major worker, the thorax appears more dull because of the pubescence which extends up to and on to the dorsum. It is equally more abundant on the gaster.<br />
Head rectangular, a little more narrow at the front, 2.6 mm X 2.1 mm wide, sides a little convex. The eyes are at the posterior third of the head. The extremity of the frontal ridges is more converging. The clypeus is distinctly keeled, the lobe is almost transverse at the front and crenulated with 6 denticles. The pronotum descends at the front in a rather strong oblique slope forming an angle of 140 degrees with the surface of the mesonotum. The latter is more elevated in front than the suture. No trace of a metanotal suture. The epinotum is lower than the mesonotum. The basal face is slightly concave and is 5/3 longer than the declivity with which it unites through an open curve with an angle of about 150 degrees. The node oval with blunt edges, the anterior face strongly convex from top to bottom its length equal to twice its width. The posterior face a little convex in all directions. Posterior tibias 3.3mm long.<br />
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Minor worker Length 9 mm. Black with a steel blue sheen on the head and thorax with the gaster slightly greenish. The mandibles, antennae, limbs, declivity of the epinotum and the node red. The anterior femurs are darker in the middle, those of the other two pairs are lighter. Very finely reticulate and shagreen. The occiput, front and fore part of the mesonotum are very glossy and more weakly sculptured than the rest which in part is hidden by dense grayish pubescence on the head and thorax, greenish yellow on the gaster. The pilosity as in the case of the media worker but more whitish.<br />
The head rectangular almost as wide in front as behind, the sides and occiput straight. The eyes are at the posterior fifth of the sides. The frontal carinae diverge more than ''ephippium'' but less than ''pellax''. The clypeus is keeled along all its length, the posterior border is arched with some denticles. The thorax is strongly convex in front. The pronotum descends more strongly than in the case of the media worker, the mesonotum is convex in profile and is more elevated in front than the strong pronotal suture. The other sutures obsolete and the basal face elongated and rather concave and twice the length of the declivity. The node as in the media worker scarcely lower. Scape length 2.5mm, tibia length 3.7mm<br />
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Queensland: Townsville (F P Dodd leg)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 97, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 111, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Santschi, F. 1919a. Cinq notes myrmécologiques. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 52: 325-350 (page 332, soldier, worker male described)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 481, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>dorycus.</span> Formica dorycus'' Smith, F. 1860b: 96 (w.) NEW GUINEA. Combination in ''Camponotus'': Roger, 1863b: 4; in ''C. (Myrmogigas''): Forel, 1912i: 91; in ''C. (Dinomyrmex''): Forel, 1914a: 268; in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Emery, 1925b: 90. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''confusus, recticeps''.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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'''''Formica dorycus'''''<br />
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Holotype worker minor in {{OUMNH}}. Labelled “Dor. 26.” <br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker. Length 6 lines (= 12 mm). Black, smooth and shining; head elongate, widest in front, slightly narrowed towards the eyes, and abruptly so behind them, forming a sort of neck; the scape of the antennae fuscous, the flagellum pale rufo-testaceous; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous, their inner margin with three or four short acute teeth, their apex forming a long stout acute tooth. Thorax elongate, narrowest behind and slightly compressed; the legs elongate, slender, ferruginous and slightly pubescent. Abdomen ovate, the apical margins of the segments rufo-piceous; the node of the peduncle wedge-shaped and pointed above. <br />
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Hab. Dory. This species resembles the worker of ''F. gigas'', which is found in India, Malacca, Singapore, Borneo, etc., but the head is different in form, the color is different, and the form of the scale of the peduncle differs too much, I think, for the insect to be considered as a form of ''F. gigas''; it must however, be one of the largest known species of the Formicidae.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 97, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 90, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))<br />
*Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 91, combination in C. (Myrmogigas))<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 268, combination in C. (Dinomyrmex))<br />
*Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berl. Entomol. Z. 7(B Beilage: 1-65 (page 4, combination in Camponotus)<br />
*Smith, F. 1860b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Bachian, Kaisaa, Amboyna, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 5(17b)(suppl. to vol. 4 4: 93-143 (page 96, worker described)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus discors yarrabahensis''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus discors|C. discors]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. discors yarrabahensis'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus discors yarrabahensis''<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from Australia.<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>yarrabahensis.</span> Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus'' r. ''yarrabahensis'' Forel, 1915b: 98 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Emery, 1925b: 102. Currently subspecies of ''discors'': Emery, 1920c: 8.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major Length 7.4-7.6 mm. Much smaller, than ''discors'' For. and even like the ''augustinota'' For. The head is also much narrower and longer. Mandibles with 7 teeth. Thorax more weakly and evenly convex as with ''discors''. The node lower and thicker. The tibia have no trace of barbs on them and are thinner. The body is quite smooth and glossy, only very weakly and finely wrinkled. The back of the head is only very weakly concave. The scape extends beyond the posterior margin of the head by more than a quarter, almost a third of its length. No trace of upstanding or flat lying hair is visible on the legs and scapes as with discors. The upstanding covering of hair is very sparse on the body, several hairs on the clypeus and cheeks. The flat lying pubescence is very sparse throughout, brownish yellow, limbs reddish yellow.<br />
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Worker minor Length 4.9-6 mm. The head is 1.5 times longer than wide, weakly convex sides, somewhat narrowed in front and behind, somewhat more behind than in front, with a distinct, even somewhat edged posterior margin. Eyes only a little behind the middle. The lobe of the clypeus forms a right angle, as with the major worker; the clypeus has only a suggestion of a keel. The scape extends over the back of the head by more than half its length. Quite bright reddish yellow with a light brownish gaster.<br />
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Yarrabah, Malanda (Queensland). The head of the specimen from Malanda (worker minor) has a distinct posterior margin, as the one from Yarraba.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Emery, C. 1920d. Studi sui Camponotus. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 52: 3-48 (page 8, Subspecies of discors)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 102, Combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 98, soldier, worker described)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus discors''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. discors'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus discors''<br />
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*''[[Camponotus discors angustinodus]]'' Emery, 1925<br />
*''[[Camponotus discors laetus]]'' Emery, 1925<br />
*''[[Camponotus discors yarrabahensis]]'' Forel, 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>discors.</span> Camponotus maculatus'' st. ''discors'' Forel, 1902h: 497 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmoturba''): Forel, 1915b: 99; Wheeler, W.M. 1915g: 814; in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Emery, 1925b: 102. Raised to species: Emery, 1920c: 8. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''angustinodus, laetus, yarrabahensis''.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Workers 7 to 10mm<br />
Major worker. Clypeus subcarined,lobe short and trapezoidal. Mandibles punctate, with a few striations. The head in the case of the major is almost as wide and convex as ''testaceipes'' of which it has the same form. A close neighbor of ''walkeri'' from which it differs especially by the presence of a lobe on the clypeus. The middle and posterior tibias have a range of strong spines. Pilosity is very sparse. The tibias and scapes are without erect hairs. The metanotum (= propodeum) has, as it were, 3 faces separated indistinctly by curves: a short basal face, then a median face in profile concave in the middle in the case of the major worker, then the declivity. The pronotum, mesonotum and basal face of the metanotum (= propodeum) form together a strong convexity. The node is of moderate thickness. Glossy and weakly shagreen.<br />
The head, except the occipital angles, the mesonotum and matanotum are a dark chestnut brown; the abdomen except the base and the occipital angles are a lighter brown; pronotum, node, tarses and antennae yellowish red; the rest of the limbs and the base of the gaster just as the front of the head in the minor worker, pale yellow.<br />
The minor worker has a rectangular head with a very distinct posterior border and it has very large eyes.<br />
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Pera Bore, N.S.Wales (Froggatt)<br />
This group constitute a transition from the group ''maculatus'' to the Australian group ''testaceipes'', ''walkeri'' etc.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 96, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920d. Studi sui Camponotus. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 52: 3-48 (page 8, raised to species)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 102, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 497, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 99, combination in C. (Myrmoturba))<br />
*Wheeler, W. M. 1915h. Hymenoptera. [In "Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia".]. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 39: 805-823 (page 814, combination in C. (Myrmoturba))<br />
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|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus cruentatus|C. cruentatus]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. cruentatus asper'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus cruentatus asper''<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>asper.</span> Camponotus (Myrmosericus) cruentatus'' var. ''aspera'' Menozzi, 1925b: 371 (w.) AUSTRALIA.<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker. It differs from the type in having more opaque mandibles, with very dense striations and piligerous punctations less dispersed; but otherwise similar to the type. Melbourne (Australia)<br />
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I received four specimens of ''C cruentatus'' from the Dutch East Indies. It differs from these by its very opaque mandibles with a dense and very fine and quite distinct striation on all its upper surface, especially in the distal half. I found it necessary to distinguish this variety by name even for geographical reasons; in fact it should be noted that the typical form up until now has been found only in southern Europe and in some regions of north America.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 86, catalogue)<br />
*Menozzi, C. 1925b. Qualche formica nuova od interessante del Deutsch. Ent. Institut di Dahlem (Form.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 368-371 (page 371, worker described)<br />
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|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
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|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. crenatus'''''<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>crenatus.</span> Camponotus crenatus'' Mayr, 1876: 64 (s.) AUSTRALIA. Subgenus indeterminate.<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major. Length 8mm. Black, glossy, apical part of the mandibles ferruginous, antennae and part of the tarses dull chestnut; moderately hairy, very scattered pubescence, gaster and metanotum (= propodeum) rather densely pubescent, antennae and feet without erect hairs, mandibles curved, glossy with dispersed punctations; head minutely and densely punctated, with dispersed punctations, above anteriorly with clypeus scarcely keeled, anterior scarcely produced, with crenations impressed on the middle of the anterior margin; the thorax is finely correate, short, convex above the angle of the propodeum, the basal part of the metanotum (= propodeum) straight; the node on the petiole moderately thickened, rounded quadrate; gaster minutely transversely coriaceous-striate.<br />
Rockhampton in Queensland (Museum Godeffroy)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)<br />
*Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 64, soldier described)<br />
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|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. cowlei'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus cowlei''<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>cowlei.</span> Camponotus cowlei'' Froggatt, 1896: 387, pl. 27, figs. 1-5 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110; in ''Melophorus'': Clark, 1930c: 22; in ''Camponotus'': Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 112. Junior synonym of ''Melophorus bagoti'': Clark, 1930c: 22. Revived from synonymy: Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 112.<br />
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Male Black, wings fuscus, cinereus hairs about the jaws and head, legs and antennae dark chocolate-brown; length four lines (= 8 mm). Head longer than broad, ocelli small, close together, forming a triangle on summit behind the eyes, the latter circular, brown and not very prominent; antennae inserted below the eyes in deep clefts, scape long and slender, the flagellum about half as long again as the scape, clypeus raised in center, mandibles stout at base, hollowed in center, swelling out at tip, terminating in a large tooth and four small teeth along inner edge; prothorax almost as wide as head at apical edge, with a slight ridge down the center, mesothorax forming a boss in the center, metathorax tapering towards the apex. Legs medium, slender, with stout spines at apex of tibiae, and the tarsi thickly spined. Wings fuscus, nervures dark brown, subcostal cell and stigma small. Abdomen node small, rounded on sides, and produced in small angular points on the lower margin, the first segment broad at base, tapering towards the apex, lightly covered with reddish-brown hairs thickest upon the under side; the genitalia very distinct; the side lobes covered with stout cinereus hairs at the tip and inner edge. <br />
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Female Dark, reddish-brown, wings fuscus, length seven lines. Head large, quadrate, ocelli very small; eyes small, black oval, antennae long, scape nearly as long as the flagellum fovea in center below the antennae, clypeus thickly fringed with long stout ferruginous hairs covering the jaws; mandibles stout, forming a sharp curved tooth at the tip, with a row of four angular teeth below; thorax broad, rounded in front, scutellum large, arcuate in front and slightly angular on the sides; legs stout and thick, tibiae and tarsi very thickly covered with spiny ferruginous hairs; wings large, fuscus, nervous brown. Abdomen large, elongate,oval, smooth and shining, the whole of the upper surface finely coriaceous, but more in the pattern of fine striae than in that of ''C. inflatus''.<br />
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Worker Honey-worker dark reddish-brown, except the segmental membrane of the abdomen, which is pale yellow, head quadrate, ocelli in depression on summit of head above the eyes; eyes small, black, slightly oval, antennae twelve-jointed, scape not quite as long as flagellum, a few short spines at the apex of the segment, but not bifurcate at the tip as in ''C. inflatus'', covered with a fine silvery pubescence towards the apical joints, clypeus depressed in center, thickly fringed with stout reddish hairs along the apical edge; mandibles large, hollowed out in center, broadest towards the tip, which forms a stout curved fang with a row of four angular teeth below, the intermediate ones the smallest; thorax rounded in front, arched, and broadest at apex of prothorax, meso- and metathorax narrow, truncate at apex; legs long, slender, the tibiae spined along either side, spines at apex of tibiae, long and slender mid and hind legs, tarsi very spiny. Scale rounded, ridged in front and produced into an angular tip on the apical margin; abdominal segments swollen out so that the chitinous plates of the segments are widely separated from each other, but the abdomen is much more corrugated and constricted about the middle than in ''C. inflatus''.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)<br />
*Clark, J. 1930c. New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species. Proc. R. Soc. Vic. (n.s.) 43: 2-25 (page 22, junior synonym of Melophorus bagoti)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 110, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Froggatt, W. W. 1896. Honey ants. Pp. 385-392 in: Spencer, B. (ed.) Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part II. Zoology. London: Dulau & Co., iv + 431 pp. (page 387, pl, 27, figs. 1-5 worker, queen, male described)<br />
*Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 112, combination in Camponotus, and revived from synonymy)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus consobrinus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. consobrinus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus consobrinus''<br />
|binomial_authority = (Erichson, 1842)<br />
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*''[[Camponotus dimidiatus]]'' Roger, 1863<br />
*''[[Camponotus nigriceps obniger]]'' Forel, 1902<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>consobrinus.</span> Formica consobrina'' Erichson, 1842: 258 (q.) AUSTRALIA. Smith, F. 1858b: 41 (w.); Imai, Crozier & Taylor, 1977: 346 (k.). Combination in ''Camponotus'': Roger, 1863b: 4; in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Wheeler, W.M. 1933b: 22. Senior synonym of ''dimidiatus'': Wheeler, W.M. 1933b: 23; Clark, 1934c: 70; of ''obniger'': McArthur & Adams, 1996: 22.<br />
*''dimidiatus. Camponotus dimidiatus'' Roger, 1863b: 4 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C''. (''Myrmoturba''): Forel, 1913g: 181; in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Emery, 1925b: 103. Junior synonym of ''nigriceps'': Mayr, 1876: 63. Revived from synonymy as subspecies of ''nigriceps'': Emery, 1887a: 211; Stitz, 1911a: 372; Forel, 1915b: 97; Crawley, 1922c: 35. Junior synonym of ''consobrinus'': Wheeler, W.M. 1933b: 23; Clark, 1934c: 70.<br />
*''obniger. Camponotus nigriceps'' r. ''obniger'' Forel, 1902h: 506 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1910b: 72 (q.). Combination in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Emery, 1925b: 103. Subspecies of ''consobrinus'': Wheeler, W.M. 1933b: 23; Clark, 1934c: 71; of ''nigriceps'': Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 117. Junior synonym of ''consobrinus'': McArthur & Adams, 1996: 22.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Black,shining head dark sides of the thorax and legs ferruginous.<br />
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Female. Length 6 lines (12.5 mm). Close to ''C herculaneus''. Antennae scape black. Head is just wider than thorax. Black,opaque above, sparingly punctated obsoletely, finely grooved between the median ridges, two carinae between the antennae, carinae slightly bow shaped. Mandibles and palps black. Thorax oblong, somewhat compressed, smooth dorsal part of the notum with scattered punctures. Node subovate, front and back flat, ferruginous. Gaster with sparse and fine punctations, pilosity scarce. Black and shining, forepart is ferruginous. Wings are dark, stigmata and nerves are yellow.<br />
Differs from ''C.herculaneus'' by the less upright stature, dark head black border, thorax longer, dorsal metathorax black, gaster scarcely punctated, feet completely reddish.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)<br />
*Clark, J. 1934c. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 8: 48-73 (page 70, senior synonym of dimidiatus)<br />
*Erichson, W. F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-Fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Arch. Naturgesch. 8 (1): 83-287 (page 258, queen described)<br />
*Imai, H. T.; Crozier, R. H.; Taylor, R. W. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma (Berl.) 59: 341-393 (page 346, karyotype described)<br />
*McArthur, A. J.; Adams, M. 1996. A morphological and molecular revision of the Camponotus nigriceps group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Australia. Invertebr. Taxon. 10: 1-46 (page 22, Senior synonym of obniger)<br />
*Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berl. Entomol. Z. 7(B Beilage: 1-65 (page 4, combination in Camponotus)<br />
*Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. (page 41, worker described)<br />
*Wheeler, W. M. 1933b. Mermis parasitism in some Australian and Mexican ants. Psyche (Camb.) 40: 20-31 (page 22, combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex))<br />
*Wheeler, W. M. 1933b. Mermis parasitism in some Australian and Mexican ants. Psyche (Camb.) 40: 20-31 (page 23, senior synonym of dimidiatus)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus consectator''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. consectator'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus consectator''<br />
|binomial_authority = (Smith, F., 1858)<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>consectator.</span> Formica consectator'' Smith, F. 1858b: 38 (q.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''Camponotus'': Roger, 1863b: 4; in ''C. (Tanaemyrmex''): Bolton, 1995b: 94.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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|material=queen(s)<br />
|locality=Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Female. Length 5 limes (10.5 mm) Black, smooth and shining. Head oblong, not wider than the thorax; the anterior margin of the clypeus entire; the mandibles strongly punctured,and ferruginous at their apex; the antennae and legs pale rofo-testaceous. Thorax ovate. Abdomen ovate;the node of the peduncle sub ovate, its superior margin entire.<br />
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Hab. Australia.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 94, catalogue)<br />
*Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berl. Entomol. Z. 7(B Beilage: 1-65 (page 4, combination in Camponotus)<br />
*Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. (page 38, queen described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_claripes_orbiculatopunctatus&diff=208681Camponotus claripes orbiculatopunctatus2013-05-09T01:41:39Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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|name = ''Camponotus claripes orbiculatopunctatus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus claripes|C. claripes]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. claripes orbiculatopunctatus'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus claripes orbiculatopunctatus''<br />
|trinomial_authority = Viehmeyer, 1925<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>orbiculatopunctatus.</span> Camponotus (Myrmophyma) claripes'' subsp. ''orbiculatopunctatus'' Viehmeyer, 1925b: 143 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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|statuspublication=<br />
|material=worker(s), queen(s)<br />
|locality=Liverpool, New South Wales<br />
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===Description===<br />
Major worker. Head wider behind, narrower in front, with stronger convex sides, sculpture weaker, back of the head and sides almost completely smooth and very shiny. The dimples are not elongated. The thorax is without, or with a very indistinct metanotum. Epinotum in profile is convex but much flatter, basal and declining surfaces are of equal length (in the type the basal surface is shorter and the angle between them is much more bent) Only traces of long drawn out dimples. Flat lying covering of hairs on the body is somewhat longer: there is a sequence of pricks on the inner edge of the rear tibias (as with the type). Thorax is somewhat darker in the major worker also the upper half of the fore coxa and femurs are more or less darkened. Length 10mm.<br />
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Queen similar to the major worker; but the head is more trapeziform, to the front strongly narrowed, with straight sides and posterior border and not totally right angled posterior corners. Gaster black. Wings missing. Length 11.5mm<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Viehmeyer, H. 1925b. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Schluss.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 139-149 (page 143, soldier, worker described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_claripes_nudimalis&diff=208680Camponotus claripes nudimalis2013-05-09T01:39:34Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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|name = ''Camponotus claripes nudimalis''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus claripes|C. claripes]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. claripes nudimalis'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus claripes nudimalis''<br />
|trinomial_authority = Forel, 1913<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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This taxon was described from Australia.<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>nudimalis.</span> Camponotus claripes'' var. ''nudimalis'' Forel, 1913g: 191 (s.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110. Currently subspecies of ''claripes'': Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 112.<br />
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*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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===Description===<br />
I received at the time from M.Michaelsen from Bridgetown, Western Australia a worker major which I had assigned to ''claripes''. But in reality it constitutes a different variety which is distinguished by its extremely sparse pilosity, absolutely absent on the cheeks, and also by the pits on its clypeus which are transformed into oblique long coarse grooves. These grooves are very distinct. The insect is very shiny with the gaster a dark brown, the head and the thorax a little yellowish light brown and the limbs yellowish.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 110, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1913h. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lae, Froggatt etc. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 49: 173-195 (page 191, soldier described)<br />
*Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 112, Subspecies of claripes)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_claripes_minima&diff=208679Camponotus claripes minima2013-05-09T01:36:27Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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|name = ''Camponotus minimus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. minimus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus minimus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Crawley, 1922<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>minimus.</span> Camponotus (Myrmophyma) claripes'' r. ''minima'' Crawley, 1922c: 31 (s.w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Thlipsepinotus''): Santschi, 1928e: 483. Raised to species: McArthur, 2009: 279.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker (major). Length 7 mm. Dark brown; underside of head, front of pronotum,and antennae ferruginous; legs pale testaceous yellow, tarsi and joints of tibia brown; borders of segments of gaster testaceous. A few erect hairs on the body, none on the antennae or legs. Head as broad as long, broadest just behind the eyes, the sides curved and narrowing in front of the eyes, which are placed behind the middle of the sides. Occipital angles rounded, the border widely concave. Mandibles stout, with 6 teeth. Clypeus obtusely carinate, almost flat, the anterior border crenulate. Frontal carinae sigmoid, wide apart. Occelli marked by three superficial impressions. Scapes barely reach the occipital border. Thorax constricted st the meso-epinotal suture. In profile the thorax forms a gentle curve to the junction of the base and declivity of the epinotum, where it descends abruptly, the angle hardly greater than a right angle. Base and declivity equal, the latter concave. Scale broad and thin, rounded at top, in profile convex in front and flat behind. Mandibles finely punctate. Whole head microscopically reticulate. Front of head with minute shallow punctures, disappearing at the occiput. Thorax similar, but punctations less in number.<br />
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Worker (minor). Length 4.4 - 5.0 mm. Brown; clypeus, cheeks, antennae,and anterior half of pronotum testaceous yellow, legs paler yellow, sometimes almost white; tarsi and joints of tibia as in major. Mandibles with 6 teeth. Clypeus as in major, but more clearly carinate. Pilosity similar. Head longer than broad, the sides almost parallel, the occipital border widely concave; the scapes pass the occipital border by a quarter of their length. Thorax as in major worker, but the base of the epinotum almost knife edged and the angle between the base and declivity less abrupt. Scale narrower and thicker. Sculpture similar to that of major worker, but smoother and minus the punctations on the head.<br />
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Mundaring, W.A. (Clark Nos. 117,121,122,131,135)<br />
Types in W.C.C. Collection.<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[category:Formicinae species]][[category:Camponotini species]][[category:Camponotus species|minimus]]<br />
[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_marcens&diff=208678Camponotus marcens2013-05-09T01:33:03Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus marcens''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. marcens'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus marcens''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1907<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>marcens.</span> Camponotus claripes'' subsp. ''marcens'' Forel, 1907h: 300 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110. Raised to species: McArthur, 2009: 278.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
|publishedname=''Camponotus claripes marcens'' Forel, 1907<br />
|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=worker(s)<br />
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|country=Australia<br />
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|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Length 6.5 - 11.5mm. Worker major. Head more trapeze shaped with very weak convex sides, longer than broad, strongly edged behind. Eyes set nearer to the back. The basal surface of the propodeum is horizontal, and as long as the declining surface.The mandibles less curved. The whole ant is slimmer and the legs longer. Head almost dull. The sculpture is fine and much thicker and sharper than with the type. The coarse sculpture on the forehead is similar.<br />
Golden red; the fore part of the gaster is reddish yellow. Head and upper part of the gaster, apart from the yellow gold seam of the segments, dark brown. Antennae yellowish brown. Same as the type.<br />
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Worker minor. Head behind narrower than in front, with convex border (the type it is wider than in front,with a concave border behind). Thorax is much less convex, longer. Eyes smaller. Reddish gold, mandibles and anterior border of the head yellow gold, posterior of the gaster brown; antennae bright brown. Otherwise same as the major.<br />
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Station 101, Mundaring Weir; Station 103, Guildford.<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[category:Formicidae]][[category:Formicinae]][[category:Camponotini]][[category:Camponotus]][[category:Camponotus marcens]]<br />
[[category:Formicinae species]][[category:Camponotini species]][[category:Camponotus species|marcens]]<br />
[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_inverallensis&diff=208677Camponotus inverallensis2013-05-09T01:29:40Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus claripes inverallensis''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus claripes|C. claripes]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. claripes inverallensis'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus claripes inverallensis''<br />
|trinomial_authority = Forel, 1910<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from Australia.<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>inverallensis.</span> Camponotus claripes'' var. ''inverallensis'' Forel, 1910b: 72 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110. Currently subspecies of ''claripes'': Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 111.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
|publishedname=<br />
|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=7 workers<br />
|locality=Reedy Creek, Inverell, New South Wales<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker Length 6 to 10mm Sculpture and shine as with the type, distribution of colors and the form of the epinotum is rather like the sub species ''marcens'' but the red yellow is paler and more dull than ''marcens'' especially in the case of the minor worker. The form of the head is intermediary; the sides are less convex than the type ''claripes''.<br />
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Reedy Creek, Inverall, NSW (Froggatt)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 110, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Rev. Suisse Zool. 18: 1-94 (page 72, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 111, Subspecies of claripes)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_elegans&diff=208676Camponotus elegans2013-05-09T00:57:23Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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|name = ''Camponotus elegans''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. elegans'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus elegans''<br />
|binomial_authority = Forel, 1902<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>elegans.</span> Camponotus claripes'' r. ''elegans'' Forel, 1902h: 496 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110. Raised to species: McArthur, 2009: 276.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
|publishedname=''Camponotus claripes elegans'' Forel, 1902<br />
|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=worker(s)<br />
|locality=Wallsend, New South Wales<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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|material=3 workers<br />
|locality=Wallsend, New South Wales<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker Length 5.5 to 8.2mm. The form is exactly like the type ''claripes''; the declivity face of the metanotum (= propodeum) is more separate from the basal face. The posterior tibias have on their internal edge, towards the base, little pricks which ''claripes'' does not have. Gross punctation of the front of the head is more sparse and almost all of the dimples are rounded (in the case of ''claripes'' they are elongated) Cheeks have only a few erect hairs. In the case of the minor worker the indentation of the clypeus is very distinct.<br />
The whole of the body is black,legs pale yellow and antennae brownish yellow. The mandibles are reddish brown in the major worker; in the case of the minor worker the mandibles and clypeus are a yellowish brown.<br />
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Wellsend, near Newcastle NSW (Froggatt)<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[category:Formicinae species]][[category:Camponotini species]][[category:Camponotus species|elegans]]<br />
[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_claripes&diff=208675Camponotus claripes2013-05-09T00:51:21Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus claripes''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. claripes'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus claripes''<br />
|binomial_authority = Mayr, 1876<br />
|subdivision_ranks = Subspecies<br />
|subdivision =<br />
*''[[Camponotus claripes inverallensis]]'' Forel, 1910<br />
*''[[Camponotus claripes nudimalis]]'' Forel, 1913<br />
*''[[Camponotus claripes orbiculatopunctatus]]'' Viehmeyer, 1925<br />
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*''[[Camponotus claripes piperatus]]'' Wheeler, W.M., 1933<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>claripes.</span> Camponotus claripes'' Mayr, 1876: 64 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1902h: 496 (q.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Forel, 1914a: 269; in ''C. (Thlipsepinotus''): Santschi, 1928e: 483. Senior synonym of ''piperatus'': McArthur, 2009: 274. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''inverallensis, nudimalis, orbiculatopunctatus''.<br />
*''piperatus. Camponotus (Myrmophyma) claripes'' subsp. ''piperatus'' Wheeler, W.M. 1933b: 26, fig. 2 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of ''claripes'': McArthur, 2009: 274.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|statuspublication=<br />
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|locality=Peak Downs and Gayndah, Queensland<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
|publishedname=''Camponotus (Myrmophyma) claripes piperatus'' Wheeler, 1933<br />
|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=12 workers, 8 queens<br />
|locality=Mt. Lofty, South Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker: Length 6-10 mm. Black or brown black, most frequently all the legs including the coxa and femur either yellow or reddish yellow, in these (especially in the minor worker) with a brownish-black ring before the apex, with tibia and tarsus either yellow or chestnut colored, in the minor worker the body is sometimes yellow with the posterior half of the head and the gaster dull black and the dorsum of the thorax more or less dusky; scattered pilosity and very dispersed adpressed pubescence, antennae and legs without erect hair,shining, weak mandibles with dispersed punctation (very finely coriaceous) the anterior half of the head densely punctated and sub opaque with large scattered punctures; clypeus is not strongly carinate, the anterior margin in the major worker has 2 obtuse teeth, in the minor worker it is bow shaped; the thorax is convex above the propodeum angle, in the major worker there is a distinct short transverse scutellum and next is a little transverse depression; the scale of the petiole is ovate.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 92, catalogue)<br />
*Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 496, queen described)<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 269, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 64, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 483, combination in C. (Thlipsepinotus))<br />
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[[category:Formicinae species]][[category:Camponotini species]][[category:Camponotus species|claripes]]<br />
[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_cinereus_notterae&diff=208674Camponotus cinereus notterae2013-05-08T23:55:26Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus cinereus notterae''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus cinereus|C. cinereus]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. cinereus notterae'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus cinereus notterae''<br />
|trinomial_authority = Forel, 1907<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>notterae.</span> Camponotus cinereus'' subsp. ''notterae'' Forel, 1907h: 303 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
|publishedname=<br />
|status=holotype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=probably destroyed in ZMHB (Berlin) in WW II<br />
|locality=Gooseberry (as Grooseberry) Hill, Western Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker minor-media. Mandibles much less curved with a straiter outer edge and much more strongly and thickly punctated than the type 7-8 teeth. Clypeus with a very pronounced frontal lobe, weakly carined. Head as with the type; but the eyes are round as circles, somewhat smaller. Scapes rather longer the shaft protrudes past the back of the head by half its length. Metanotum (= propodeum) as with ''ephippium'', at least as so strongly concave saddle shaped (straight in the the type). The mesometanotal (= mesopropodeal) suture only weakly marked. Pronotum and node like the type; the last somewhat less thick. Limbs somewhat longer than the type; tibias cylindrical, with one row of 7-10 very distinct small spikes on the inner side.<br />
Glossy, sharper and less smoothly wrinkled than the type. Overall a rather dense grayish yellow pubescence, stronger than with the type, yet the sculpture is still visible underneath. The tibias have rather short rather rich diagonal upstanding hair, the scape has only a little upstanding hair.<br />
Black;mandibles and tibia reddish; scape and remainder of the limbs brownish; The membranes of the gaster are narrow brown yellow lines.<br />
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Station 152 Goosberry Hill<br />
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The subspecies ''notterae'' has the same form for the head and pronotum as with ''cinereus'', whereas the metanotum (= propodeum) is like ''ephippium'' and ''tasmani''. The main differences are strong enough to justify a subspecies. Compared with ''innexus'' Forel the clypeus, the form of the pronotum and the pilosity are quite different; even so as with ''hartogi'' Forel and ''oxleyi'' Forel.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 110, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1907j. Formicidae. In: Michaelsen, W., Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7. Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310. (page 303, worker described)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus cinereus amperei''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus cinereus|C. cinereus]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. cinereus amperei'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus cinereus amperei''<br />
|trinomial_authority = Forel, 1913<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from Australia.<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>amperei.</span> Camponotus (Myrmocamelus) cinereus'' var. ''amperei'' Forel, 1913g: 192 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110. Currently subspecies of ''cinereus'': Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 111.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker minor. Length 7 mm. The head a little longer than the type, almost one quarter longer than wide. The scapes also longer and surpass the head by nearly half their length. The principal differences besides this are the pubescence extremely thin, short and sparse, and the erect pilosity which is very sparse on the body and none on the legs whereas it is quite abundant in cinereus also on the cheeks, (not on the limbs, which are quite devoid of it). All the rest is identical; the sides of the head are moderately compressed as in the type<br />
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Sea Lake, Victoria.(Goudie)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 85, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 110, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1913h. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lae, Froggatt etc. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 49: 173-195 (page 192, worker described)<br />
*Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 111, subspecies of cinereus)<br />
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus cinereus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. cinereus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus cinereus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Mayr, 1876<br />
|subdivision_ranks = Subspecies<br />
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*''[[Camponotus cinereus amperei]]'' Forel, 1913<br />
*''[[Camponotus cinereus notterae]]'' Forel, 1907<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>cinereus.</span> Camponotus cinereus'' Mayr, 1876: 62 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C''. (''Myrmocamelus''): Forel, 1913g: 192; Forel, 1914a: 270; in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1920b: 192; Santschi, 1928e: 481. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''amperei, notterae''.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|locality=Peak Downs, Queensland<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker Length.7.5-9mm Ferruginous, in part dark, gaster black, sometimes head more or less black; sparse erect hairs, antennae and limbs not hairy, moderate and fine flat lying pubescence, denser pubescence on the gaster, yellow and fine; mandibles with dispersed punctations weakly curved; head glossy, finely and densely punctate coriaceous; Clypeus with a keel in the middle, the anterior margin in the case of the worker major is emarginate in the middle of its arc; thorax convex above the propodeum angle, the mesonotum and the basal part of the metanotum (= propodeum) almost straight longitudinally; the node on the petiole is thick like a rounded cube; gaster with very dense and fine transverse striations.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 92, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1913h. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lae, Froggatt etc. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 49: 173-195 (page 192, combination in C. (Myrmocamelus))<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 270, combination in C. (Myrmocamelus))<br />
*Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 62, worker described)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 481, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus chalceus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. chalceus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus chalceus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Crawley, 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>chalceus.</span> Camponotus (Myrmosaga) chalceus'' Crawley, 1915b: 236 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1920b: 257; Santschi, 1928e: 482.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|locality=Yallingup, Western Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
sp. n. Worker major - Length 9-9.5 mm. <br />
Mandibles 5-dentate, coarsely striated, with a few punctures. Clypeus shield-shaped, not carinate, with a small deep emargination at the anterior border. Frontal area in the form of a right-angled triangle. Head slightly longer than broad, the sides almost parallel for two-thirds of their length, then narrowing rapidly, posterior border feebly concave. Eyes placed at the commencement of the hinder third of sides of head. Pro-mesonotum forms a regular curve in profile, the pronotum broad, with slight shoulders. Basal surface of epinotum deeply concave longitudinally, in the form of a saddle, declivous surface abrupt, almost perpendicular, slightly shorter than the basal surface. Scale high, fairly thin, somewhat wider at the top, which is nearly straight.<br />
Head, pro- and mesonota finely reticulate-punctate; head in addition, particularly on the clypeus and checks, with large irregular punctures. Epinotum and scale finely striated transversely. Gaster very finely reticulated. Body with fairly plentiful, erect, yellowish-white hairs,more sparse on the thorax, occasionally two or three on the scapes, and a row underneath the tibiae; both scapes and tibiae slightly pubescent, also thorax and gaster. <br />
Black; legs, declivous surface and sides of basal surface of epinotum, and a patch on the metasternum (and sometimes on the mesosternum) dull red. Gaster bronzed.<br />
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Worker minor - Length 7 mm. <br />
Emargination of clypeus wider and not so deep. The concave basal surface of epinotum longer in proportion. The epinotum is often entirely dull red, and their is a small red patch on the mesosternum. Head sometimes with a faint bronze reflection. Scale proportionately much ticker, and more rounded on the top. Gaster bronzed. <br />
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Female - Length 11.5 mm. Emargination of clypeus as in worker major. Head rather wider than thorax. Pronotum very slightly shouldered. Basal surface of epinotum straight, and only one-third as long as the declivous surface. Sculpture as in worker major, except that the basal surface of epinotum is more reticulate than striate. Color as in worker major, except that the red extends from the sides across the top of the basal surface of epinotum, and there is a red patch on the mesosternum. The top of the scale also is red. <br />
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Yallingup, S.W.Australia (Rowland Turner).<br />
Worker, Female. From the description of the worker<br />
minor it will be seen that this ant very closely resembles the ''C. (Myrmosaga) dewitzii'', Forel, from the Congo, described in the Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat.(1886), (worker minor).<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 91, catalogue)<br />
*Crawley, W. C. 1915b. Ants from north and south-west Australia (G. F. Hill, Rowland Turner) and Christmas Island, Straits Settlements. - Part II. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8(15): 232-239 (page 236, soldier, worker, queen described)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 482, Combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus chalceoides''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. chalceoides'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus chalceoides''<br />
|binomial_authority = Clark, 1938<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>chalceoides.</span> Camponotus (Myrmophyma) chalceoides'' Clark, 1938: 376, figs. 14-16 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA.<br />
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*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|statuspublication=<br />
|material=2 workers, 1 queen<br />
|locality=Reevesby Island, South Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major- Length 9.3-9.7 mm. <br />
Head, thorax and node metallic bronze-black, gaster iridescent bronze with the anterior and apical margins of segments metallic green, femora and tibiae brownish black, tarsi reddish brown. On several specimens the epinotum more or less red. <br />
Mandibles coarsely striate-rugose and punctate, whole body finely and very densely reticulate throughout except on legs, scapes and legs shining, finely punctate. <br />
Hair yellow, erect, short and abundant throughout, some extra long hairs on clypeus. Pubescence not apparent.<br />
Head as long as broad, occipital border straight, sides convex, angles broadly rounded. Mandibles furnished with four long, broad sharp teeth. Clypeus flatly convex above, strongly projecting in front, convex, with a short deep concave excision in middle. Frontal area triangular, feebly defined. Frontal carinae as long as broad behind, much broader behind than in front, a fine longitudinal groove between them. Scapes extend beyond occipital border by one-fifth their length. First segment of funiculus one-fifth longer than second, remainder sub-equal, apical as long as the two preceding combined. Eyes small, rather flat, their anterior edge behind the middle of sides. Anterior ocellus very small, placed in a large puncture, posterior ocelli lacking. Thorax barely twice as long as broad, sutures sharply impressed. Pronotum two and one-half times broader than long, sides, front and top strongly convex, concave behind. Mesonotum slightly broader than long, almost circular, strongly convex in all directions. Spiracles prominent. Epinotumslightly longer than broad, strongly convex transversely; in profile pronotum strongly convex from apex to base. Mesonotum feebly convex, highest in front. Epinotumfeebly concave in middle one and one half times longer than declivity into which it is rounded. Node fully twice as broad as long, bluntly pointed above, sides and anterior face convex, posterior face straight; in profile twice as high as long, anterior and posterior faces convex, bluntly pointed above. Gaster longer than broad. First segment twice as broad as long, strongly convex in front, almost hemispherical. Legs long and slender.<br />
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Worker media - Length 7.5-8 mm. <br />
Color, sculpture and pilosity as in the major, with the epinotummore often rose-red. Head one-fifth longer than broad, sides almost parallel. Scapes extend beyond occipital border by one-third their length.Epinotum in profile, much more concave, and lower than mesonotum. Node thicker, more rounded on top. <br />
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Worker minor - Length 6.5-7 mm. <br />
Color, sculpture and pilosity as in the major, epinotum red. Head, one fifth longer than broad, strongly convex behind eyes, sides convex. Scapes extend beyond occipital border by half their length, epinotum more concave than in major and media, and node thicker, convex on top. <br />
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Habitat - Reevesby Island. South Australia: Port Lincoln, Kyancutta. Western Australia: Balladonia.<br />
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Several nests were found in rotten trees on Reevesby Island. Many single examples of the worker minor have been received in the past from other localities. This species is more highly colored than Camponotus chalceus Crawley from Western Australia, but has a slight resemblance.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 91, catalogue)<br />
*Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proc. R. Soc. Vic. (n.s.) 50: 356-382 (page 376, figs. 14-16 soldier, worker described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_ceriseipes&diff=208669Camponotus ceriseipes2013-05-08T23:33:00Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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|name = ''Camponotus ceriseipes''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. ceriseipes'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus ceriseipes''<br />
|binomial_authority = Clark, 1938<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|statuspublication=<br />
|material=3 workers<br />
|locality=Reevesby Island, South Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
|coordinates=<br />
|collector=Clark,J., McCoy Soc. Expedition<br />
|collectiondate=<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker. - Length 12mm. <br />
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. <br />
Hair yellow, long and erect on mandibles, clypeus and gaster, sparse elsewhere. Pubescence short and adpressed, apparent only on legs. <br />
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. <br />
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Worker media - Length 9.5-10 mm. <br />
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. <br />
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Worker minor. - 7-7.5 mm. <br />
Color, sculpture and pilosity as in worker media. <br />
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. <br />
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Habitat - Reevesby Island. A small nest was found in the ground at the north end of the island.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 91, catalogue)<br />
*Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proc. R. Soc. Vic. (n.s.) 50: 356-382 (page 378, figs. 17-19 soldier, worker described)<br />
*Shattuck, S. O.; McArthur, A. J. 2002. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus wiederkehri and perjurus species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 126: 63-90 (page 70, figs. 11-16 major and minor described)<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1974a. Ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae: third supplement. J. Ga. Entomol. Soc. 9: 59-64 (page 60, larva described)<br />
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus capito ebeninithorax''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus capito|C. capito]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. capito ebeninithorax'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus capito ebeninithorax''<br />
|trinomial_authority = Forel, 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from Australia.<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>ebeninithorax.</span> Camponotus (Myrmophyma) capito'' var. ''ebeninithorax'' Forel, 1915b: 100 (w.) AUSTRALIA.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker. The worker is almost the same size as the type (a little smaller) and differs in the color that is the whole body including the limbs is black; only the head is dark red.<br />
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Australia (received from Herrn Froggatt who identified it as ''capito'')<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 97, catalogue)<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 100, worker described)<br />
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus capito''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. capito'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus capito''<br />
|binomial_authority = Mayr, 1876<br />
|subdivision_ranks = Subspecies<br />
|subdivision =<br />
*''[[Camponotus capito ebeninithorax]]'' Forel, 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>capito.</span> Camponotus capito'' Mayr, 1876: 64 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1915b: 99 (w.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1970: 650 (l.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Forel, 1912i: 91. Provisional junior synonym of ''cinereus'': Santschi, 1919a: 330. Revived from synonymy: Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 110. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''ebeninithorax''.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|statuspublication=<br />
|material=1 worker, 3 queens<br />
|locality=Peak Downs, Queensland<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major Length 11-13mm. Ferruginous, legs generally ferruginous-testaceous, gaster black, mandibles chestnut; sparse upstanding pilosity, antennae and limbs with upstanding pilosity, dispersed and very fine, the sides of the thorax, metanotum (= propodeum) and coxa are densely pubescent; finely and superficially coriaceous and glossy, frons and vertex sparsely punctated on top, with the anterior half of the head opaque, finely and densely punctated with larger and dispersed pits, mandibles with coarse pits, opaque, with the spaces between the pits coriaceous, gaster sublaevi, with hair in the pits, transverse striations; clypeus is not keeled, moderately produced in front, anterior margin sub semicircular, emarginate and therefore bidentate; the head between the eyes is strongly convex, and depressed a little behind the eyes; thorax above the propodeum angle is convex, scutellum can be seen transversely, the basal part of the metanotum (= propodeum) is a little depressed; the node on the petiole is not high.<br />
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Peak Downs in Queensland. (Museum Godeffroy)<br />
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Forel,A. (1915):<br />
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Worker minor (not yet described) Length, 7.6-8.2mm Head is rectangular almost 1/4 longer than wide with compressed sides distinctly flattened back of head with straight posterior border. From the convex eyes which are positioned close to the posterior border of the head. to the back corners, goes a very distinct blunt edge which separates the back of the head from the flattened sides (similar to ''ephippium''). The vertex is not at all swollen. Pronotum approximately as wide as the head and like the head is only slightly glossy finely reticulate and rather strongly pubescent (the major worker is glossy smooth and almost without pubescence). As with the large worker the color is red with a black gaster otherwise like the major worker only the pubescence is stronger all over.<br />
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The discovery of the minor and major together proves that a number of species which I had previously put in ''Myrmocameleus'', I can now put into ''Myrmophyma''. The same could happen for example with ''ephippium'' if one finds amongst them a major worker with a swollen vertex.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 90, catalogue)<br />
*Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 91, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 99, worker described)<br />
*Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 64, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1919a. Cinq notes myrmécologiques. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 52: 325-350 (page 330, Provisional junior synonym of cinereus)<br />
*Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 110, Retained as species)<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1970b. Ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae: second supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 63: 648-656 (page 650, larva described)<br />
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus capito''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. capito'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus capito''<br />
|binomial_authority = Mayr, 1876<br />
|subdivision_ranks = Subspecies<br />
|subdivision =<br />
*''[[Camponotus capito ebeninithorax]]'' Forel, 1915<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
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==Castes==<br />
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==Nomenclature==<br />
{{Nomenclature}}<br />
*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>capito.</span> Camponotus capito'' Mayr, 1876: 64 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1915b: 99 (w.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1970: 650 (l.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Forel, 1912i: 91. Provisional junior synonym of ''cinereus'': Santschi, 1919a: 330. Revived from synonymy: Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 110. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''ebeninithorax''.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
|publishedname=<br />
|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=1 worker, 3 queens<br />
|locality=Peak Downs, Queensland<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major Length 11-13mm. Ferruginous, legs generally ferruginous-testaceous, gaster black, mandibles chestnut; sparse upstanding pilosity, antennae and limbs with upstanding pilosity, dispersed and very fine, the sides of the thorax, metanotum (= propodeum) and coxa are densely pubescent; finely and superficially coriaceous and glossy, frons and vertex sparsely punctated on top, with the anterior half of the head opaque, finely and densely punctated with larger and dispersed pits, mandibles with coarse pits, opaque, with the spaces between the pits coriaceous, gaster sublaevi, with hair in the pits, transverse striations; clypeus is not keeled, moderately produced in front, anterior margin sub semicircular, emarginate and therefore bidentate; the head between the eyes is strongly convex, and depressed a little behind the eyes; thorax above the propodeum angle is convex, scutellum can be seen transversely, the basal part of the metanotum (= propodeum) is a little depressed; the node on the petiole is not high.<br />
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Peak Downs in Queensland. (Museum Godeffroy)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 90, catalogue)<br />
*Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mém. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 20: 59-92 (page 91, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 99, worker described)<br />
*Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 64, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1919a. Cinq notes myrmécologiques. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 52: 325-350 (page 330, Provisional junior synonym of cinereus)<br />
*Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 110, Retained as species)<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1970b. Ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae: second supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 63: 648-656 (page 650, larva described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_cameratus&diff=208662Camponotus cameratus2013-05-08T06:17:50Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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|name = ''Camponotus cameratus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. cameratus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus cameratus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Viehmeyer, 1925<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>cameratus.</span> Camponotus (Myrmogonia) cameratus'' Viehmeyer, 1925b: 146 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
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|locality=Trial Bay, New South Wales<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major. Head trapezoidal, with anteriorally weakly curved, moderately converging sides, strongly rounded posterior corners, flatly concave posterior margin. Clypeus slightly arched with moderately diverging sides with hardly a keel with anterior margin produced somewhat, in the middle there is a very slight indentation and in front of this there is a dimple shaped impression. Frontal area indistinct; frontal ridges diverging strongly backward; very fine and very flat frontal groove located on a raised up plateau. The anterior margin of the flatly arched eyes is clearly positioned in front of the middle of the head. The scapes exceed the back of the head by about the length of the first segment. The mandibles are short, thick strongly curved on the outside edge with 6 teeth. Thorax arched lengthwise, up to the short sloping concave surface of the epinotum forming a curve, distinct promesonotal suture, indistinct or absent mesoepinotal suture with indistinctly separated metanotum. The basal surface of the epinotum is twice as long as the declivity and joins the declivity in a flatly rounded curve. Apart from the strongly transverse flat, anteriorly rounded pronotum the thorax is very convex, the epinotum (= propodeum) is slightly compressed at its sides. Node about 3 times as wide as long with parallel front and back surfaces, the latter slightly higher, the overall surfaces somewhat rounded and sloping from front to back.The entire body reticulate with the front part of the head very narrow and sharp, integument here is absolutely dull. On top of the head less blunt; thorax slightly, anterior part of the head, node, gaster strongly glossy. At the front of the head and at the top of the head there is an accumulation of piligerous points, those at the front are sometimes elongated but generally quite shallow. Erect hairs yellowish white, scattered, only on the front of the head more dense; adpressed hair also scattered, short, white; limbs only with flat-lying hair. Limbs; the flexor side of the hind tibias are without spines. Black; Apical half of the mandibles, base of the scapes of the antennae red brown, limbs light brown, far end of coxa and trocanter brownish yellow.<br />
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Worker minor. Form of the head is very similar, but the clypeus is with a keel, not stretched out nor has it an indentation; mandibles less curved, thinner; Scapes exceed the anterior margin of the head by a good 1/3 of its length. Sloping surface of the epinotum is not convex forming an edge with the remaining dorsum profile; Node is quite column shaped, not less than twice as wide as long. Front of the head not so blunt and without the group of piligerous points.<br />
Length 4.2-6.2 mm. <br />
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Trail Bay. Solitary.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 90, catalogue)<br />
*Viehmeyer, H. 1925b. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Schluss.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 139-149 (page 146, soldier, worker described)<br />
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[[category:Need Overview]][[category:Need Images]][[category:Need Body Text]]</div>RMeierhttps://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Camponotus_bigenus&diff=208661Camponotus bigenus2013-05-08T06:14:28Z<p>RMeier: </p>
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{{Taxobox<br />
|name = ''Camponotus bigenus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. bigenus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus bigenus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Santschi, 1919<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>bigenus.</span> Camponotus (Myrmocamelus) bigenus'' Santschi, 1919a: 333 (s.w.m.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110; Santschi, 1928e: 481.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|status=syntype<br />
|statuspublication=<br />
|material=4 workers, 1 queen, 1 male<br />
|locality=Townsville, Queensland<br />
|country=Australia<br />
|coordinates=<br />
|collector=<br />
|collectiondate=<br />
|specimenidentifier=<br />
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*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|locality=Townsville, Queensland<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker major. Length 10mm. Red. Clypeus and mandibles darker red. Around the thorasic sutures and on top of the epinotum more brownish. Node and appendages dark red brown. Gaster black rimmed with yellow. Sculpture similar to ''pellax'' but the thorax is even richer in pits. Pilosity erect more abundant and longer than ''pellax''.<br />
Head 3.2mm long, 2.9 mm wide, in other respects like ''pellax'' and ''capito'' Mayr. Clypeus flat with a moderate indentation at the border of feebly produced lobe. The frontal ridges reach the median occellus. Lateral occelli obsolete. Scape reaches occipital border. Thorax is 3.3mm long, shorter and more squat than ''pellax''. Mesonotum wider than long and slightly raised towards the pronotal suture. Metanotum tends lower at the back, on the same level as the basal face of the epinotum (= propodeum), this latter being scarcely 1/4 longer than the declivity but forming a very rounded angle. The node is much wider than high, its sides narrow but blunt, form at the summit and at each side a rounded angle. Anterior face convex, posterior face flat. Viewed from the top the length is about 2.5 times the width.<br />
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Worker Length 6.8-8.7mm. Black, condyle and scape ferruginous. Matte, densely and finely reticulate, front of head more strongly,gaster more finely than the thorax. Pilosity erect, white, long pointed abundant (40 to 60 on the thorax), richer on the gaster, poorer on the head.<br />
Long pubescence, yellow grey or pale gold, very abundant and close, not hiding the sculpture of the thorax but it does hide that of the gaster and almost the clypeus.<br />
Head rectangular, very much longer than wide, sides almost straight converging slightly in front. Posterior border and vertex convex. Eyes at the posterior quarter. Clypeus feebly keeled, anterior border crenulated. Frontal ridges slightly diverging. Mandibles finely punctate and strongly rugose, the external border is straight, armed with 7 or 8 teeth. Thorax is much shorter and more convex compared with ''pellax''. The convex pronotum is strongly inclined at the front. The mesonotum is convex, not raised towards the pronotal suture which is strong. Metanotal suture is obsolete. The basal face of the epinotum straight or weakly concave passing through a wide curve to the declivity 1/2 to 1/4 shorter. Node, thicker than the height of its flat anterior surface and less than the posterior face which is vertical and convex from right to left. The summit is strongly rounded and projects forward a little.<br />
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Male 7.5mm long.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 89, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 110, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Santschi, F. 1919a. Cinq notes myrmécologiques. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 52: 325-350 (page 333, soldier, worker, male)<br />
*Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 481, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus arcuatus aesopus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = ''[[Camponotus arcuatus|C. arcuatus]]''<br />
|subspecies = '''''C. arcuatus aesopus'''''<br />
|trinomial = ''Camponotus arcuatus aesopus''<br />
|trinomial_authority = Forel, 1907<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from Australia.<br />
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*''<span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;'>aesopus.</span> Camponotus arcuatus'' var. ''aesopus'' Forel, 1907h: 302 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1925b: 110. Currently subspecies of ''arcuatus'': Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 110.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker minor Length 3.8mm. Strongly glossy, wrinkles not thick very shallow. Thorax even wider than the type. Pronotum width is greater than twice its length. The sides of the head are very straight and even more compressed than the type especially behind the eyes where the head is even more bordered. Pubescence over the whole body is a short very scattered insignificant. Otherwise like the type, which however is very dull, reticulate with a very obvious pubescence.<br />
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Station 91, Mt. Robinson near Kalgoolie W A.<br />
The Species type comes from Queensland.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 84, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 110, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1907j. Formicidae. In: Michaelsen, W., Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7. Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310. (page 302, worker described)<br />
*Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 110, subspecies of arcuatus)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus arcuatus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. arcuatus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus arcuatus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Mayr, 1876<br />
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*''[[Camponotus arcuatus aesopus]]'' Forel, 1907<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
This taxon was described from [[Australia]].<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>arcuatus.</span> Camponotus arcuatus'' Mayr, 1876: 63 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 217 (l.). Combination in ''C. (Myrmoturba''): Forel, 1914a: 266; in ''C. (Myrmophyma''): Emery, 1920b: 257. Current subspecies: nominal plus ''aesopus''.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|locality=Rockhampton, Queensland<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker 5 - 8 mm Black, opaque, gaster, forehead in the major worker almost bronzed and glossy, mandibles, antennae and limbs castaneous or ferruginous; sparse pilosity scattered, gaster in the worker minor with plentiful adpressed white pubescence, antennae and feet without erect hairs; mandibles weakly curved, glossy, dispersed punctations; head and thorax very feebly and densely punctate, gaster feeble transverse coriaceous; clypeus scarcely keeled, the anterior moderately produced, the anterior margin arcuate, in the case of the major worker emarginate in the middle; thorax short, strongly convex above the propodeum angle, petiole with a rounded square node.<br />
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Rockhampton (Museum Godeffroy)<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 86, catalogue)<br />
*Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 8: 229-260 (page 257, combination in C. (Myrmophyma))<br />
*Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Rev. Suisse Zool. 22: 257-276 (page 266, combination in C. (Myrmoturba))<br />
*Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 63, soldier, worker described)<br />
*Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61: 205-222 (page 217, larva described)<br />
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|name = ''Camponotus afflatus''<br />
|regnum = [[Animal]]ia<br />
|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a<br />
|classis = [[Insect]]a<br />
|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]]<br />
|familia = [[Formicidae]]<br />
|subfamilia = [[Formicinae]]<br />
|tribus = [[Camponotini]]<br />
|genus = ''[[Camponotus]]''<br />
|species = '''''C. afflatus'''''<br />
|binomial = ''Camponotus afflatus''<br />
|binomial_authority = Viehmeyer, 1925<br />
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==Identification==<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
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*''<span style='color:red;font-weight:bold;'>afflatus.</span> Camponotus (Myrmosaga) afflatus'' Viehmeyer, 1925b: 140 (w.) AUSTRALIA.<br />
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===Type Material===<br />
*{{TypeSpecimen<br />
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|status=syntype<br />
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|material=1 worker<br />
|locality=Killalpaninna (as Killalpaninno), South Australia<br />
|country=Australia<br />
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===Description===<br />
Worker media. Head distinctly longer than wide, with almost parallel, forward narrowing sides, rounded posterior corners and convex posterior border. The clypeus has strongly diverging sides, with only a weak short keel behind, on both sides sloping and at the front straight, the center of the lobe is crenulated. The eyes are moderately domed, with their back edge an eye lengths distant from the posterior corners of the head, their front edge behind the middle of the head. Frontal area is indistinct, only beyond the clypeus sharp and roundly edged. Mandibles with weakly curved outer edges, 6 teeth. Antennae lacking. The thorax in profile somewhat similar to ''erythropus'', but the pronotum is shorter, sides not so distinctly curved, its greatest breadth is at the front (with ''erythropus'' it is in the middle), pronotal suture weak (''erythropus'' it is strong), convex, no trace of a mesoepinotal suture or of a bordered metanotum. Epinotal (= propodeal?) impression longer and somewhat deeper. Epinotal angle more open rounded, the thorax in its whole distance from right to left is more strongly convex, the pronotum rounded only to the front (in the case of ''erythropus'' in front and also the side) Node narrower and lower, forming a column above scarcely diminished and almost level.The whole body finely reticulate and glossy, Mandibles smooth with coarse punctations, also on the front part of the head, sparse and much weaker; The gaster thickly and finely punctated. On the dorsal face of the tibia there is a distinct single row of spines, on the ventral face one row of spines. Upstanding covering of hairs quite scattered, yellowish white; flat lying on the head and limbs scattered and very shot, on the thorax and gaster forming a bluish dark green circlet. Chocolate brown, the gaster dark brown the segments ringed with yellow.<br />
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Killalpaninna, South Auistralia. W.Rielel.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 84, catalogue)<br />
*Viehmeyer, H. 1925b. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Schluss.). Entomol. Mitt. 14: 139-149 (page 140, worker described)<br />
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