Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) maculatus (Fabricius)

Type location West Africa (Formica maculata, Fabricius, 1782: 491, worker; Mayr, 1862: 654, queen & male; Donisthorpe, 1915a: 221, redescription of the type); Wheeler (1922) reported the location as "in Africa aequinoctali" adding probably Sierra Leone .

The original Fabricius (1793) description is at . Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (1835: 213) gave a description, this is at . Mayr (1862: 654) gave a further description which is at .

Note: Forel (1891b: 29ff) gave a description, this is at . This, however, was stated as being of C. maculatus liocnemis by Emery (1905d: 30). Forel, for instance, gave the base colour as black rather than dark brown.

Because of the complexity of the, mostly sub-Saharan forms attributed to C . maculatus, please visit http://antsofafrica.org/ant_species_2012/camponotus/camponotus_maculatus/camponotus_maculatus.htm

Egypt records - possibly not found as niche filled by C. aegyptiacus; Karavaiev (1911: 10) reported finding major and minor workers and wingless queens from Cairo but he noted the queens had parallel sided heads matching the type queens in Emery (1908a: 192).
However, Sharaf list - Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), 13.vi.2003 (2); Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), 14.vi.2003 (1); Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), 14.v.2003 (1) (SHC). Local distribution: Nagh Hammadi, Salloum, Kantara.
From Egypt, however, it may be that it was illustrated by Savigny (Audouin, J.-V. 1825-27: Plate 20 Fig 9). The queen, however, is smaller and more slender, with shorter scapes, than the queens shown on the linked Ants of Africa pages.

The minor, assuming Savigny's scale is correct (the other species drawings on Plate 20, confirm the accuracy of his drawings), also is not C. maculatus but seems likely to be Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah.