Camponotus rufipes (Fabricius, 1775)

Silva, Márcio Morais, Esbérard, Carlos Eduardo Lustosa, Mayhé-Nunes, Antônio José & Bueno, Cecília, 2019, Ants in the diet of Collared Anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pilosa, Myrmecophagidae), in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Check List 15 (6), pp. 1145-1151 : 1148

Camponotus rufipes (Fabricius, 1775)

Materials examined. BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: along highway BR-040 • 3 workers, Station 1 (22°35′33″S, 043°16′48″W), C. Bueno coll., 22-XIII-2009 ( CEIOC 72743 , 72744 , 72745 ) • 2 workers, Station 8 (21°57′05″S, 043°18′04″W), C. Bueno coll., 02-XI-2014 (72741, 72742).

Identification. Camponotus rufipes ( Fig. 2C, D) was identified using the characters described by Hashmi (1973) and Mackay and Mackay (2004). Body covered by golden-yellow or reddish hairs which vary in length; anterior border of clypeus strongly concave, with angled sides and longitudinal median carina well developed; scapes dilated and flattened at apex, with hairs in their whole extension, from the base to apex; mesosoma with well-defined promesonotal suture and poorly defined mesometanotal suture; legs usually reddish-brown.