Camponotus coloratus Wild, 2007, NEW STATUS

Camponotus coloratus Forel 1904a. NEW STATUS. Camponotus melanoticus v. colorata Forel 1904a: 49. [holotype w examined, MHNG; Ciénaga, Columbia]. Camponotus (Myrmoturba) melanoticus var. colorata Forel. Bruch 1914: 229. Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) substitutus var. colorata Forel. Emery 1925: 83. Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) substitutus var. coloratus Forel. Kempf 1972: 72. Camponotus coloratus cannot be considered conspecific with C. substitutus. Both ants are locally sympatric in the Paraguayan chaco without signs of hybridization. These species share a similar striking bicoloration (see discussion under C. substitutus), but workers of C. coloratus, in addition to being on average larger than workers of C. substitutus, have disproportionately longer legs, a more opaque microsculpture, and considerably reduced pilosity with the sides of the head of the major bearing fewer than 5 standing setae. Paraguayan material is lighter in color and with a broader head in the major caste than Forel’s type from Colombia, but given the allopatric nature of the variation I see no reason to divide C. coloratus further.Published as part of Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 1622 on page 4