Key to Afrotropical Camponotus sericeus species group

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Afrotropical Camponotus sericeus species group

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 * Whole body without erect quetae, except some small, short, isolated ones ….. Camponotus sankisianus
 * Erect quetae present in mesosoma, petiole and gaster .....13

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 * Pubescence not present or, if present, short and stout. Most of the quitinous surface is visible and does not have a silky appeareance .....14


 * Mesosoma, petiole, coxae and gaster covered by a long, dense white or yellow pubescence that can impede the vision of the quitinous surface, providing an overall silky appeareance .....17

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 * Mesosoma, petiole and gaster without any kind of pubescence or adpressed quetae. Long, thin white hairs present in mesosoma and petiole, but absent from the gaster except in the distal band of each tergite. Longitudinal striae present in mesosoma and petiole  ….. Camponotus liogaster
 * Mesosoma, petiole and gaster covered with notorious thick, small, white adpressed quetae. Some stout erect quetae present in mesosoma, petiole and gaster. Sculpture in head, mesosoma and petiole areolate and notorious ….. Camponotus scabrinodis

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 * Head covered with very dense, long, white pubescence. Overall pilosity white .....18
 * Only the clypeus covered with dense, long, white pubescence but the rest of the head only with very scattered adpressed, isolated hairs. Mesosoma, petiole and gaster covered in long, very dense golden yellowish pubescence (can be whitish in C. sericeus sulgeri)….. Camponotus sericeus, Camponotus sericeus euchrous, Camponotus sericeus sulgeri

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 * Head pubescence very long and dense, clypeus and genae almost completely covered and no patches of cuticula can be seen. Propodeum not ridged, but almost semispherical. Gaster densely covered with very long erect white hairs, its length comparable to the petiole height..... Camponotus cubangensis, Camponotus cubangensis dofleini
 * Head pubescence abundant, but sparser, clypeus and genae with visible cuticula present in ample zones. Propodeum ridged at least in its posterior half. Gaster with sparse erect hairs, its length not comparable to petiole height ….. Camponotus mayri, Camponotus mayri chimporensis