The Ants of Africa
Genus Camponotus subgenus Myrmonesites
Genus Camponotus

Subgenus definition - Emery (1920b: 242) - majors and minors similar; head a rounded trapeze, larger posteriorly, and obtuse anteriorly; clypeus remarkably short with a rounded anterior border, narrowly impressed in one species (mocquerysi), mandibles short; alitrunk with distinct sutures, pronotum depressed and usually obtusely bordered, metanotal suture usually impressed; propodeum variable, metanotum not distinct but spiracles visible in dorsal view; scale more or less low and thick.

Emery's (1920b) subgenus definition is at {original description}.

The subgenus members listed by Emery (1920b) and in Bolton (1995: 131) are heteroclitus, leveillei, mocquerysi, putatus, reaumuri and sikorae. All except heteroclitus can be seen on http://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=genus&name=camponotus&project=madants.

I have transferred Camponotus scalaris into the subgenus, as the first mainland African member, from C. (Myropiromis), as it is quite distinct from other members of that subgenus.

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