# Notostigma

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***Notostigma*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [ants](/source/Ant) in the [subfamily](/source/Subfamily) [Formicinae](/source/Formicinae).[1] Its two species are known only from [Australia](/source/Australia). Workers are [nocturnal](/source/Nocturnal) and forage solitarily.[2] *Notostigma* was first described by [Emery](/source/Carlo_Emery) (1920), when he erected the new genus for three species of [carpenter ants](/source/Carpenter_ants) (*Camponotus*).[3]

## Species

- *[Notostigma carazzii](/source/Notostigma_carazzii)* (Emery, 1895)
- *[Notostigma foreli](/source/Notostigma_foreli)* (Emery, 1920)

## References

1. ["Genus: *Notostigma*"](http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Notostigma&rank=genus&project=allantwebants). *antweb.org*. [AntWeb](/source/AntWeb). Retrieved 23 September 2013.

1. Taylor, R. W. (1992). ["Nomenclature and Distribution of Some Australian and New Guinean Ants of the Subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)"](https://zenodo.org/record/24845). *Australian Journal of Entomology*. **31**: 57–69. [doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1992.tb00458.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1992.tb00458.x)

1. Emery, C. (1920). "Le genre *Camponotus* Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres" (in French). *Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels)*. **8**: 229–260.

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