Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) negus Forel - new status
  Type locality Ethiopia
(Camponotus maculatus F. subsp. negus n. subsp., Forel,
1907c: 142, all forms; subspecies of thraso according to Emery,
1920c: 6) Kounhi - see below
subspecies
agricola (Camponotus
maculatus subsp. Agricola,
Forel 1910e: 454, major & minor workers) South Africa,
Natal, Wroughton - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0910118
unavailable names
assabensis (C. maculatus ssp adenensis
var assabensis, Emery, 1893f: 258, worker) Eritrea -
see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0905282
beritchi (Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus
F. r. negus For. v. Beritchi
n. v., Forel, 1915c: 348, worker) South Africa, George, Cape
Province, H Brauns - no images on Antweb (October 2014)
etiennei (Camponotus
maculatus subsp. negus
Forel var. Etiennei n. var.
Forel, 1910e: 453, major & minor workers) Zaïre, Banana, Dr
Etienne - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0910126
all forms described (see
Bolton, 1995)  .
The type locality of thraso is Sri Lanka and
subspecies range across to Israel; it seems unlikely that negus
would be a subspecies with a range the length of eastern Africa, so I
have taken negus as a full species. I am also including:
montinanus (Camponotus (Myrmoturba) thraso
var montinanus,
Santschi, 1926b: 251, major & minor workers, from Zimbabwe
- see below
and nefassitensis
(Camponotus maculatus subsp. negus Forel var. nefassiensis n. var.,
Forel, 1910c: 266; Menozzi, 1931a: 155, major & minor workers, name
and
distribution only) from Ethiopia, Nefassit - see below (also
from Eritrea,
Finzi, 1939a: 160) as probable subspecies.
Note tacitus (Camponotus
maculatus race agricola,
Forel var. tacitus, Santschi,
1919b: 240, major & minor
workers) South Africa, Natal, Haviland - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912069
is a light red-brown form and probably is unrelated to negus.
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Forel's (1907c) description is at  ; his (1910e) description of agricola
is at  ; his (1910e) description
of etiennei is at  ; his (1910c) description
of nefassitensis is at  ; and his (1915c)
description of beritchi is at  . Arnold's (1922: 648) translation, as maculatus
race negus variety beritschi, is at  and his (1922: 647) translation, as maculatus
race agricola, is at  . Santschi's (1926b)
description of montinanus is at  . Arnold's (1926: 293)
translation of tacitus, is at 
Emery (1893f) simply noted on assabensis that a
worker specimen from Assab differed from adenensis in having
the gaster without striolate sculpture but being irregularly
transversely reticulo-punctate.
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The
photomontage is of the type major worker collated
from 
The
photomontage is of the type minor worker collated
from 
The photomontage of C. negus
nefassitensis is collated from The Smithsonian Insitute type images
at 
The
photomontage is of a syntype major worker of montinanus
collated
from