The Ants of Africa
Genus Camponotus subgenus Tanaemyrmex
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) flavifemur Santschi - new status

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) flavifemur Santschi - new status

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Tanzania (Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus F. v. flavifemur n.v., Santschi, 1937g: 84, worker & queen) .
Santschi's (1937g) description is at {original description}. Worker similar to lohieri (major TL 14 mm) and zumpti Sant. but with the femora and tibiae pale yellow contrasting with the red ochre or ferruginous mesopleurosternum and metasternum (as in the other varieties); tibia with brown black aguillons passing into ferruginous in the distal third. Lake Victoria, Mwanza (Mwanga).

Camponotus flavifemur majorThe photomontage is of a syntype major worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0903514
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