Afrotropical Camponotus vividus species group key

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Afrotropical Camponotus vividus species group

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 * Gaster covered with very dense, long yellow pubescence. Length of pubescent hairs bigger than distance between rows, thus covering the whole surface and in most cases almost completely covering the quitinous surface .....31
 * Gaster pubescence sparse to non-existant. Length of pubescent hairs smaller than distance between rows, thus not covering the whole surface and leaving ample zones of the quitinous surface exposed .....40

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 * Overall pilosity pale yellow to yellowish grey. Gastral pubescence, although long, thin and sparse, not covering completely the tergites and leaving ample zones of tegument seen ..... Camponotus arminius


 * Overall pilosity yellow. Gastral pubescence long and abundant, covering completely the tergites and giving the whole gaster a woolly appeareance .....32

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 * Clypeus with deep, notorious circular fosulae where quetae are inserted .....33
 * Clypeus without deep, notorious circular fosulae where quetae are inserted .....34

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 * Clypeus and genae covered with long, stout, conspicuous yellow quetae ..... Camponotus barbarossa
 * Clypeus not covered with long, stout, conspicuous yellow quetae, although some isolated quetae con be present ..... Camponotus kollbrunneri

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 * In dorsal view, anterior half of pronotum rounded. Declivity of propodeum obtuse..... Camponotus chrysurus
 * In dorsal view, anterior half of pronotum angulous, almost marginated, the lateral and dorsal faces forming an angle. In lateral view, declivity of propodeum a square angle..... Camponotus amphidus

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 * Major: Propodeum clearly isolated from mesonotum by a deep furrow, the mesonotum declining well under the propodeum level and the propodeum with an anterior vertical face. minor: propodeum dorsal line well under the level of the rest of the mesosoma, the posterior part of the mesonotum almost vertical ..... Camponotus scalaris


 * Propodeum dorsal line at a similar level of the rest of the mesosoma, or higher, never completely isolated from mesonotum and lacking an anterior face .....41

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 * Head surface covered with profound, conspicuous circular hair pits ….. Camponotus maynei
 * Head surface not covered with profound, conspicuous circular hair pits .....42

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 * Dorsal outline of the mesonotum densely covered with long quetae .....43
 * Dorsal outline of the mesonotum almost bare. Long quetae present only in numbers in the posterior propodeal line and scattered over the mesonotum .....44

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 * Head densely reticulated. Suberect quetae present on the occipital line. Whole body covered with long, stout, white quetae, those of the gaster comparable in length to petiole height ….. Camponotus erinaceus
 * Head smooth. Occipital line without quetae except in its medial line running in pairs. Lenght of erect quetae on the gaster much smaller than those on the mesosoma, these comparable to petiole height ….. Camponotus vividus

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 * White, long, stout conspicuous erect quetae present in mesosoma and gaster ….. Camponotus braunsi
 * Erect quetae thin and inconspicuous….. Camponotus reevei