Taxonomic history
Combination in Camponotus (Myrmophyma): Emery, 1925d PDF: 111; Santschi, 1928e PDF: 481.Worker. HW 1.4 - 3.3; HL 1.7 - 3.25; PW 1.35 - 2.4. Mesosoma contrasting red and black, red legs; tibiae with flat-lying short overlapping setae, a few long erect setae under head. Major worker. Front of head feebly truncate; median section of anterior clypeal margin projecting, narrow, concave, bounded by two blunt teeth. Minor worker. Anterior mesosoma black contrasting with red posterior; node summit convex, sometimes flattish; median section of anterior clypeal margin wide, convex; about 8 teeth.