Taxonomic history
Emery, 1920d 10.5281/zenodo.25547 PDF: 36 (q.).Combination in Camponotus (Myrmamblys): Forel, 1912j PDF: 90.Combination Camponotus (Pseudocolobopsis): Emery, 1920b PDF: 259.Status as species: Emery, 1896d 375; Emery, 1920d 10.5281/zenodo.25547 PDF: 35; Emery, 1925d PDF: 158; Borgmeier, 1927c PDF: 154; Kempf, 1968b PDF: 408; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 64; Bolton, 1995b: 109; Wild, 2007b PDF: 28.Senior synonym of Camponotus geralensis: Kempf, 1968b PDF: 408.Senior synonym of Camponotus luederwaldti: Kempf, 1968b PDF: 408.[Note: Camponotus geralensis was proposed as a replacement name for Camponotus macrocephalus Emery, 1894: Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122, a junior secondary homonym of Colobopsis macrocephala (Erichson, 1842) when both names were combined in Camponotus. As the two names now occupy different genera, the replacement name is redundant.].Worker. HW 0.90 - 1.70; HL 1.10 - 1.90; PW 0.70 - 1.20. Yellow brown; glossy; dorsum of mesosoma evenly flatly convex; erect setae confined to front of head and gaster; eyes placed near vertex; dimorphic. Major worker. Head sides straight, parallel; vertex straight; anterior head sharply truncated, deeply striate lengthwise and at 45°; clypeal median section clearly edged, parallel, anterior margin convex and posterior to mandible insertions. Minor worker. Head sides mostly straight, slightly tapering forward; vertex rounded; clypeus not truncate, anterior clypeal margin convex, projecting past mandibular insertions.
Literature records: “Paraguay” (s. loc.) (Kempf 1972 [as “ geralensis ”]).
