Afrotropical Myrmotrema species group

Diagnosis
The treatment of this species group (former subgenus Myrmotrema) follows Santschi (1915). Five of the species complexes hereby defined and its diagnosis can be found at pg. 272. The other two species groups (XXX flattened and YYYY)can be inferred from the key in the same reference.

Diagnosis

 * Scapes flattened
 * Tibiae prismatic and/or channelled

Species
bayeri Forel, 1913 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya)

bituberculatus André, 1889 (Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone)

carbo Emery, 1877 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Oman)

carbo occidentalis Mayr, 1902 (Ghana)

compressiscapus André, 1889 (Senegal, Sierra Leone)

crucheti Santschi, 1911 (Angola)

perrisii Forel, 1886 (Angola, Kenya)

perrisii densipunctatus Stitz, 1916 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

No images available

perrisii insularis Stitz, 1916 (Equatorial Guinea)

• Camponotus foraminosus annobonensis Santschi, 1920

perrisii jucundus Santschi, 1911 (Congo)

perrisii nigeriensis Santschi, 1914 (Nigeria)

puberulus Emery, 1897 (Eritrea, Somalia)

Diagnosis

 * Mesosoma elongated
 * Genal fossae very developed. Fossae diameter bigger than the spaces between them
 * Genal pubescence very long
 * Scapes not flattened
 * Tibiae rounded

Species
Camponotus auropubens argentopubens: Only Queen described

Diagnosis

 * Gaster completely pubescent
 * Scapes not flattened
 * Tibiae rounded

Diagnosis

 * Genal fossae present but less developed than in auropubens species complex. Fossae diameter smaller than the spaces between them
 * Tibiae rounded
 * Genal pubescence short or non present
 * Overall appeareance matt
 * Scapes not flattened
 * Tibiae rounded

Diagnosis

 * Gaster slightly sculptured, more or less shiny
 * Gastral pubescence short and sparse
 * Scapes not flattened
 * Tibiae rounded

Species
Camponotus olivieri moshianus: No images available Camponotus olivieri patersoni: No images available

Diagnosis

 * Head and mesosoma coloured, never black
 * Propodeum tectiform
 * Scapes not flattened
 * Tibiae rounded

Species
Camponotus diplopunctatus subconvexus: No images available

Camponotus robecchii dispar: No images available

Incertae sedis
Camponotus aurofasciatus: No images available

Camponotus argus: No images available