The Ants of Africa
Genus Camponotus subgenus Orthonotomyrmex
Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) sankisianus Forel

Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) sankisianus Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type locality Zaïre (Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) Mayri For. r. sankisianus n. stirps, Forel, 1913b: 347, minor worker; raised to species by Arnold, 1946: 65, major), from Sankisia, by J. Bequaert; major & minor workers only described (see Bolton, 1995) .


{Camponotus sankisianus}Forel's (1913b) description is at {original description}. Arnold (1946) provided a description and notes, this is at {original description}. He noted there were numerous specimens from locations in the north of Zambia (Northern Rhodesia).

Reported also, from Congo, Mandouga, by A. Weiss (Wheeler, 1922).


{Camponotus sankisianus minor}The photomontage of the type minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=rmcaent000017813.


{Camponotus sankisianus minor}The photomontage of the Arnold type major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908650.

Contents
© 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 - Brian Taylor CBiol FSB FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

href="camponotus_sankisianus.htm"