Camponotus (Myrmotrema) haereticus Santschi

Type location Nigeria (Camponotus foraminosus ssp haereticus, Santschi, 1914d: 382, soldier & worker; raised to species by Santschi, 1915c: 269; Wheeler, 1922, who retained it as an ssp) collected at Olokemeji, by F. Silvestri, in 1913; soldier and worker described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at .

Separated in Santschi's key (1915c) by - genae with shallow hair pits smaller than intervening spaces and hairs very short or absent; propodeal dorsum only slightly narrowed, shorter than declivity; pubescence white, short and translucent, gastral dorsum without median glabrous line; silky hairs quite short; overall semi-matt; genae shiny; colour black.

Nigeria specimens -
MAJOR WORKER - TL 7.35 mm, HL 2.02, HW 2.05, SL 1.56, PW 1.34 (in my guide as Camponotus foraminosus dorsalis)
MINOR WORKER - TL 4.37 mm, HL 1.28, HW 1.09, SL 1.28, PW 1.00
Colour black, extremities dark red-brown, shiny. Sculpturation of fine puncturation coarsest on the head, especially on major where it is almost foveolate in nature. Coarse erect white hairs relatively abundant, also covered all over with a moderately dense silvery pilosity. Declivity of propodeum an obtuse near right-angle. Petiole a sharp scale, with a line of coarse hairs along transverse dorsal edge.

In Nigeria, it is quite common on cocoa, on up to 1.5% of trees, both at CRIN and at 27/76 farms (Taylor, 1977; Taylor & Adedoyin, 1978). Probably the species named as Camponotus rufoglaucus species group by Booker (1968) and present in >10% of his pkd samples from the W13/2 and W18/1 blocks at CRIN.

Also from Ghana (Aburi, F. Silvestri) and Congo (Lukolela, by Kang & Chapin, in Wheeler, 1922).