Key to Camponotus Karavaievia queens

This key to queens is based on: [[Media:Dumpert Maschwitz Weissflog 2006.pdf|Dumpert, K., U. Maschwitz and A. Weissflog. 2006. Description of five new weaver ant species of Camponotus subgenus Karavaievia EMERY, 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Malaysia and Thailand, with contribution to their biology, especially to colony foundation. Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 8:69-82. PDF]]

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 * Camponotus
 * Karavaievia

1

 * Petiolar scale blunt in lateral view . . . . . Camponotus exsectus


 * Petiolar scale acute in dorsal view . . . . . 2

2
return to couplet #1
 * Anterior clypeal margin with only a very small median excision; legs brown with three broad white bands . . . . . Camponotus striatipes


 * Anterior clypeal margin with strong semicircular excision . . . . . 3

3
return to couplet #2
 * Total length about 7 mm . . . . . Camponotus micragyne


 * Total length more than 9 mm . . . . . 4

4
return to couplet #3
 * Frontal area much wider than high and poorly delimited . . . . . Camponotus schoedli


 * Frontal area only slightly wider than high or as wide as high . . . . . 5

5
return to couplet #4
 * Frontal area only slightly wider than high and poorly delimited . . . . . 6


 * Frontal area as wide as high . . . . . 8

6
return to couplet #5
 * Anterior clypeal margin without medial excision . . . . . Camponotus khaosokensis


 * Anterior clypeal margin with slight medial excision . . . . . 7

7
return to couplet #6
 * Uniformly reddish brown, scutellum and metanotum darker . . . . . Camponotus asli


 * Head and mesosoma light yellowish brown . . . . . Camponotus weissflogi

8
return to couplet #5
 * Anterior clypeal margin without medial excision . . . . . 9


 * Anterior clypeal margin more or less excised . . . . . 10

9
return to couplet #8
 * Uniformly blackish brown in color . . . . . Camponotus melanus


 * Head, mesosoma and legs yellowish brown in color, gaster darker . . . . . Camponotus aureus

10
return to couplet #8
 * Anterior clypeal margin with strong medial excision . . . . . 11


 * Anterior clypeal margin only slightly medially excised . . . . . 12

11
return to couplet #10
 * Uniformly black or blackish brown in color . . . . . Camponotus orinus


 * Head, mesosoma and legs reddish brown, gaster darker . . . . . Camponotus gombaki

12
return to couplet #10
 * Petiolar scale distinctly excised when seen from front or behind . . . . . Camponotus maschwitzi


 * Petiolar scale not excised . . . . . 13

13
return to couplet #12
 * Head and mesosoma shiny; mesosoma strongly sculptured, showing stripe-like structures . . . . . Camponotus belumensis


 * Head and mesosoma opaque, mesosoma without stripe-like structures . . . . . Camponotus gentingensis