Camponotus ogasawarensis

Japanese Name

Ogasawara-oo-ari

Terayama, M. & T. Satoh (1990c) Camponotus (Myrmamblys) ogasawarensis sp. nov. from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bull. Biogeogr. Soc. Japan, 45, 117-121.

Total length of workers around 4 - 5.5 mm. Head, mesosoma and petiole yellow; ground color of gaster black; 1st to 3rd gastral tergites each with a pair of yellow spots or a yellow transverse band; 4th gastral tergite often with a pair of similar spots (absent in some individuals). Dorsal margin of propodeum concave in minor workers. Viewed from the side, major workers have straight dorsal mesonotal and propodeal profiles, and the anterior end of the propodeum forms a blunt angle. Petiolar scale with an inverted U-shaped profile.

This is an arboreal species which nests in dead twigs on trees.

Ogasawara Is.