Key to Afrotropical Camponotus buchneri species group

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Camponotus buchneri species group diagnosis

800

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  • Whole aspect pubescent, particularly the gaster covered with a dense yellow pubescence. Long, erect quetae present on mesosoma dorsum (buchneri complex) .....801
  • Whole aspect glabrous, particularly the gaster not covered with a dense yellow pubescence, but with a very short, very sparse pubescence, giving the gaster a glabrous appeareance. Mesosoma dorsum without erect quetae (aberrans complex) .....805

801

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  • Mesopropodeal furrow deep and wide, the propodeum presenting an anterior side, and thus isolated from the rest of the mesosoma. Lateral processes of the petiolum clearly developed, its width almost as width as half the petiolum width ....Camponotus polyrhachioides
Phasmomyrmex paradoxus casent0250078 p 1 high.jpg
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  • Mesopropodeal furrow thin to almost non existent, the propodeum forming a continuous line with the rest of the mesosoma. Lateral processes of the petiolum poorly developed, its width much smaller than half the petiolum width .....802

802

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  • Pilosity goldish yellow; erect quetae on gaster restricted to first tergite ....Camponotus buchneri
Phasmomyrmex buchneri casent0250083 p 1 high.jpg
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Camponotus bucneri griseus casent0912090 p 1 high.jpg
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Camponotus bucneri griseus casent0912090 l 1 high.jpg

805

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  • Petiolar process very developed, in the form of a trident, with a central spine and two lateral bifidus spines, the three comparable in size. Prododeum with two clearly demarcated blunt trianglular processes ..... Camponotus aberrans
Phasmomyrmex aberrans casent0250082 p 1 high.jpg
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  • Petiolar process without a central spine, but two lateral simple spines. Propodeum rounded..... Camponotus wolfi

NOTE: Worker undescribed, character derived from queen images

Phasmomyrmex wolfi casent0178250 profile 1.jpg
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