Genus Camponotus subgenus Myrmopelta
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The Ants of Africa Genus Camponotus subgenus Myrmopelta |
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Subgenus definition - Section 6 Myrmopelta Santschi (1921f: 310) - medium sized, with golden or white hairs on the gaster; alitrunk with distinct, often impressed metanotal suture; mainly western Africa; several feed mainly on termites.
Santschi (1926a: 16) clarified and restated his definition of the
subgenus; this is at
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in the same paper, Santschi also provided a key to the species of Myrmopelta
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Emery (1925b: 141) had these species in the vividus-group of
subgenus Myrmamblys.
Key to species derived from Santschi (1926a) - subspecies not separated -
| 1 |  Genae
and clypeus with distinctive fossae, or large puncturations; metanotal
suture variable |
2 |
| -- |  Genae
and clypeus without distinctive fossae; metanotal suture quite deeply
impressed |
4 |
| 2 | Gaster with dense pubescence, often giving a golden layer | 3 |
| -- |  TL
major ca 10 mm; gaster with much sparser pubescence, black |
Mozambique & South Africa - arminius |
| 3 |  Major
TL 8 mm; propodeum with dorsum longer than the declivity; at least minor
head anteriorly much less shiny than barbarossa, with quite
coarse sculpturation |
Ethiopia - kollbrunneri |
| -- |  TL
major 9-10 mm; metanotal suture weakly impressed; propodeum with dorsum
much shorter than declivity |
Congo Basin - barbarossa |
| 4 |  Erect
hairs rust or golden; gaster sometimes with fur-like layer of pubescence |
Pan-African tropics - chrysurus s.s. |
| -- |   Erect
hairs whitish; without fur-like layer on gaster; posterior angles of
clypeus with a punctiform impression |
Pan-African tropics - vividus |
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