Camponotus (Myrmacrhaphe) rotundinodis Santschi
  Type locality Zaïre
(Camponotus (Myrmacrhaphe)
rotundinodis
n. sp., Santschi, 1935a: 281, illustrated, worker) collected at Kai
Bumba,
16.x.1920, by Dr Schouteden
holotype worker only described (see
Bolton, 1995)  .
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 Santschi's
(1935a) description is -
Worker; TL 5.0 mm; head elongate like Camponotus
conradti, but with the eyes larger and set further from the
posterior angles of the head which are slightly more acute. Mandibles
smooth but matt, armed with 5 teeth. Maxillae very long. Clypeus
without a carina. Scape surpassing occiput by about one-fifth its
length. Thorax lower and more elongated than the other subgenus
members. Thorax profile less arcuate. Metanotal groove absent. Dorsum
of pronotum compressed but more convex and borders less pronounced.
Petiole scale is remarkable for its thick summit, rounded with a
diffuse border; seen from the front regularly arcuate. Gaster
elongated.
Colour black; mandibles, antennae, inferior femora and articulation of
tibiae, yellow; rest of legs medium brown; borders of gaster segments
yellow. Very finely shagreened, dull. Posterior angles of head and
pronotum, petiole scale and gaster with reduced sculpturation and
shinier. Long oblique white translucent hairs on head and thorax, more
numerous on declivity of propodeum, petiole scale and gaster; few on
the legs. Pubescence whitish, short closely spaced on body and
appendages. The original is at  .
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The
photomontage of the type worker is collated
from 
The
photomontage is of one of three workers from Tanzania, Mkomazi
Game
Reserve; collector G McGavin (tree 5/17). 
The
photomontage is of one of three workers from Botswana;
collector D M King (King 113).