Afrotropical Camponotus sericeus species group

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KEY

Diagnosis

 * Propodeum swollen, sometimes raised over the mesonotum level, sometimes armed with small teeth.
 * The posterior side of the propodeum normally concave, although sometimes only slightly so.
 * Dorsal and lateral faces of the propodeum usually separated by ridges than can form small obtuse triangular teeth posteriorly.
 * Petiole never slender or squamiform, but thick and normally cubical or rectangular.

Species
cubangensis Forel, 1901 (Angola)

cubangensis dofleini Forel, 1911 (South Africa)

• Camponotus mayri ledieui Forel, 1916

liogaster Santschi, 1932 (South Africa)

mayri Forel, 1879 (Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

mayri chimporensis Santschi, 1930 (Angola)

sankisianus Forel, 1913 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

scabrinodis Arnold, 1924 (Zimbabwe)

sericeus (Fabricius, 1798) (Afghanistan, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, India, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kenya, Kuwait, Mali, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe)

• Formica aurulenta Latreille, 1802

• Formica obtusa Smith, F., 1858

• Formica pyrrhocephala Motschoulsky, 1863

sericeus euchrous Santschi, 1926 (Niger, Sudan)

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sericeus sulgeri Santschi, 1913 (Congo)