Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) guttatus Emery

Type location Cameroun (Camponotus maculatus F. subsp. guttatus n. subsp., Emery, 1899e: 498, major & minor workers & queen; Forel, 1913e: 670, male) collected by Conradt - see below
junior synonym brevitibialis (unavailable name Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus st. radamoides var. brevitibialis, Santschi, 1920g: 181, major & minor workers) from South Africa Zululand, Trägōrdh; referred to guttatus by Baroni Urbani (1972: 132) - no images on Antweb (September 2014)
all forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1899e) description is at . Forel's (1913e) description of the male is at . Santschi's (1920g) note of brevitibialis is at , Baroni Urbani (1972) simply noted brevitibialis was indistinguishable from guttatus.

Emery (1920c: 6) listed as a subspecies minusculus (Viehmeyer, 1914c: 44, soldier, worker & queen) from Tanzania. Santschi (1915c) in comparison with Camponotus maculatus miserabilis noted how the specimen of a minusculus major sent to him by Viehmeyer had a shorter head which was more convex laterally, the frontal carinae were wider apart and the genae had short silky hairs (none in miserabilis); also the petiole scale was slightly lower. He thought minusculus was close to Camp. traegaordhi (type location South Africa, Santschi, 1914e), from which it differed by its shorter length and less distinctly patchy gaster. With fresh specimens from the area of the type location, I now regard the mostly black Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) minusculus as a quite distinct and well defined species.

Also from Congo areas (Wheeler, 1922), taken "only at night-fall, visiting the tables in the camp.... shy and fast runners".

Bernard (1952) recorded it from Guinea, Mt. Nimba, Area E and Mount Tô, both at 1600 m; citing it as a rare insect, known from Cameroun and Congo; intermediate between maculatus and traegaordhi (known from South Africa and Zimbabwe).

The photomontage of the type major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905280.

The photomontage of a minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905281.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) guttatus B Taylor det.	Niger David King King 51	12.ii.2008 Niamey 13°39'31"N 02°06'36"E	185 m asl; hotel grounds, nest excavated in a crack at the base of a building; nocturnal foragers on ground and in trees	3
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) abjectus B Taylor det.	Senegal Djolof B Ndiaye	Tessékéré 15.42° N 15.06° W	Tessékéré 20-II-11 PV B2 PF1 41 m; Sahelian savannah, pitfall traps major & minor workers	6
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) guttatus B Taylor det.	Benin J-F Vayssieres RVA 3086	4.iv.2013 Koro 09°22'21'' N 02°40'13'' E	Mangifera indica orchard prey of Oecophylla longinoda 1400-1500 h minor	1

The photomontage is of a major specimen from Niger, Niamey; collector David King; series of workers, see others below.

The photomontage is of a media specimen.

The photomontage is of a minima specimen.

The photomontage is of a major worker from Senegal; collector B Ndiaye.

The photomontage is of a minor worker from Senegal; collector B Ndiaye.