Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) fulvopilosus (De Geer)

Type location South Africa (Formica fulvo-pilosa, De Geer, 1778: 613, illustrated, worker; Forel, 1879a: 108, major; Forel, 1910f: 25, male; Arnold, 1924: 737, queen) from Cape of Good Hope, collector M. Sparrman - no type images on Antweb (September 2014)
junior synonyms
pilosa (Formica pilosa, Olivier, 1792: 498, worker) South Africa, Cape of Good Hope (seemingly the De Geer specimen)
rufiventris (Formica rufiventris, Fabricius, 1804: 409, worker) South Africa, Cape of Good Hope - no type images on Antweb (September 2014)
detritoides (Camponotus fulvopilosus De Geer var. detritoides n. var., Forel, 1910f: 25, worker) South Africa, Glatkop, Klein-Namaland, L. Schultze - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0910452
flavopilosus (Camponotus fulvopilosus Fabr. var. flavopilosus n. var., Emery, 1895h: 54, worker; Forel, 1910f: 25, male; Santschi, 1930b: 78, queen) Namibia, De Aar - see below
all forms known (see Bolton, 1995) .

De Geer's (1778) description is at . Fabricius's (1804) description of rufiventrisis at .Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (1835: 213) gave a description, this is at . Forel's (1879a) description of the major is at . Olivier's (1792) description of pilosa is at . Emery's (1895h) note on flavopilosus was simply that the gastral pilosity was pale yellow. Similarly, Forel's (1910f) separation of detritoides seems trivial. Arnold (1924: 736, 740) gave a translation, plus the description of the queen; these are at and .

Robertson & Zachariades (2007) modern description is at . The montage is adapted from their original by inverting the monochrome images and, so, giving a somewhat more real impression of the dorsal pronotum, the dorsal gaster and the gastral hairs.

The photomontage of the flavopilosus worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905418

Oxford University Museum specimens

Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) fulvopilosus B Taylor det.	South Africa S Danflous	16.xii.2007 Elandskrans x°x'x" S y°y'y” E	Western Cape	4
Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) fulvopilosus B Taylor det. minor	Namibia D J Mann OUMNH-2006-093	15.xii.1999 Caprivi Park 17°46'56" S 23°16'31" E	Immelmann runway, 4 km W Dead millipede baited PF trap coll. Mann & Marais (savannah form)	1
Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) fulvopilosus B Taylor det. major	Namibia D J Mann OUMNH-2006-093	12.xii.1998 Gbobabis Dist. 23°19'17" S 18°45'00" E	Texas 17 swept	1
Camponotus (Myrmopiromis) fulvopilosus B Taylor det.	Botswana King 110	4.xi.2010 North of Pom Pom Camp 19.32.52 S 22.49.43 E	958 m Open savannah Foraging on the ground 1 major & 1 minor	2

The photomontage is of worker polymorphism of specimens collected from South Africa, Elandskrans, Western Cape, S x°x'x" E y°y'y"; z m; Sam Danflous, 16.xii.2007; nest under a stone.

Full images of each morph and others from Namibia can be seen on Workers

The photomontage is of a minor worker collected as above

Image from http://www.waspweb.org/Vespoidea/Formicidae/index.htm

Photographs taken in the field by Dr Brigitte Braschler, at the Grootkop Nature Reserve next to Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, 13.x.2006. [Dr Brigitte M. Braschler, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa]