學名:Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) friedae FOREL.
學名變革:
Camponotus (Myrmoturba) friedae FOREL, 1912, ENT.
Mitt., 1: 77.
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) friedae: EMERY, 1925,
In WYTSMAN (ed.), Genera Insectorum, Fasc. 183:
102.
Camponotus (Myrmoturba) friedae var. amia FOREL,
1912, Ent. Mitt., 1: 78. Syn nov.
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) friedae amius: BOLTON,
1995, A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the
World: 85.
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) sp. 8: TERAYAMA &
KIHARA, 1994, Distribution Maps of Japanese
Ants: 42.
辨識:工蟻多型性;小工蟻長約5mm,大工蟻約7-9mm。頭黑;中軀,觸角,及腳為褐色;腹錘黑褐色。
大工蟻特徵:大顎6齒(較小個體5齒);頭楯向前伸;頭楯前緣無正中凹;柄節超過頭後1/5柄節長度;側面觀時前胸及中胸背板背部曲線直,於中胸背板背部前緣處形成一鈍角;曲線於前伸腹節處突然下傾;中軀背部有20根以上直立毛;頭頂部、腹柄節背部及腹錘也具同樣直立毛。
小工蟻特徵:大顎5齒,頭楯向前伸;觸角柄節超過後頭緣1/3柄節長度;側面觀胸部曲線於前胸及中胸背板背部直,前伸腹節處突降;中軀有超過20根直立毛。
檢視過的標本(只列台灣部分):
4 workers, 1 alate queen, 1 male, Kosempo,
Formosa, H. SAUTER leg.[syntypes of C. friedae;
MHNB]; 2 workers, Shustin, Formosa, [syntypes of
C. friedae var. amia; MHNB]; 25 workers Nanshan-chi,
Nantou Hsien, 24. III. 1984. M. TERAYAMAleg.; 1
worker, Nanfeng-cun, Nantou Hsien, 17-21. VIII.
1980, T. NAMBU leg.; 3 workers, Puli, Nantou
Hsien, 9. X. 1977, K. YAMAUCHI leg.; 2 workers,
Urai, Taipei, 11. VIII. 1980, M. TERAYAMA leg.;
10 workers, Liukuei, Kaohsiung-Hsien, 17. VIII.
1987, M. TERAYAMA leg.
註記:由1912年FOREL所發表阿美變種(var. amius, 文中寫amia )的描述,阿美變種與原種的差別在於阿美變種其身體表面光澤度較弱,大工蟻體型較小。但是,經詳細比對原名種及阿美變種後,作者作出結論,這兩種其型態上並無明顯不同。阿美變種的大工蟻其實只是大黑巨山蟻大工蟻間的較小體型個體。本種築巢於森林、林緣及草地之土中或石頭下。
分佈:Nansei Is. (Amami-oshima I., Miyako Is.);
Taiwan; southern China.
出處:Terayama, M. 1999. Ant genus Camponotus
Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Japan. Memoirs
of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1: 25-48.