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The Ants of
Africa Genus Camponotus subgenus Myrmamblys |
Genus Camponotus |
Subgenus definition - Forel (1912i: 90) - mostly unsculptured, shiny, alitrunk of worker moderately low and not medially waisted (étranglé); dimorphism (no intermediates) shown in head, always more or less truncate, including clypeus, antennal insertions well forward relative to frontal carinae. Major workers use the truncated head to block nest entrances in hollow stems and trunks of trees (Arnold 1924: 613).
Forel's (1912i) subgenus
definition is on
. Santschi (1926c) gave a
further genus
definition, this is at
.
Key to species
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West Africa & Congo Basin into Sudan southern forests - chapini |
-- | Petiole a thicker scale | 2 |
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Ethiopia - criniticeps |
-- | Petiole with convex anterior face and flat posterior | 3 |
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Cameroun - buchholzi |
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South Africa - klugii |
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Genus page |
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