Camponotus piceus spissinodis, Forel, 1909

Seifert, Bernhard, 2019, A taxonomic revision of the members of the Camponotus lateralis species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Europe, Asia Minor and Caucasia, Soil Organisms 91 (1), pp. 7-32 : 15

Camponotus piceus spissinodis africanus Santschi 1929

The name of this taxon is unavailable according to the provisions of the ICZN. A major and minor type worker, collected at Tanger / Morocco, are depicted in antweb.org under CASENTO911700 and CASENT0911701. They are clearly heterospecific from C. spissinodis and show a mesosomal shape and overall pigmentation similar to an average situation in C. lateralis . Yet, their head length and scape length indices are clearly higher than the upper extremes in any other species related to C. lateralis : CL/CW 1.25 = 1.15 and SL/ CS 1.25 = 1.051.