Afrotropical Camponotus buchneri species group

Diagnosis
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 * Petiole not a node or scale, but with lateral proceses, such as lamellae or spines (buchneri complex) or widely rectangular in dorsal view, with lateral spines, simple or bifidous (aberrans complex).

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aberrans complex

 * Petiole not a node or scale, but widely rectangular in dorsal view, with lateral spines, simple or bifidous
 * Head and mesosoma densely sculptured, reticulated
 * Glabrous, no erect quetae present in head, mesosoma or gaster

aberrans Mayr, 1895 (Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda)

wolfi Emery, 1920 (Cameroun, Central African Republic, Kenya, Uganda)

buchneri complex

 * Petiole not a node or scale, but with lateral proceses, such as lamellae or spines. These can be very devoloped or reduced to short, blunt, triangular lamellae
 * Sculpture smooth, not notorius and usually hidden by pubescence
 * Long, erect to suberect quetae present in head, mesosoma, gaster or both
 * Dense, long pubescence present overall, but very dense and notorious on gaster.

buchneri Forel, 1886 (Angola, Cameroun)

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buchneri camerounensis Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016 (Cameroun)

buchneri griseus Santschi, 1937

polyrhachioides Emery, 1898 (Gabon)

polyrhachioides cupreus (Santschi, 1923) (Congo)

Camponotus sericeus (Stitz, 1910)