The Ants of Africa
Genus Camponotus subgenus Myrmacrhaphe
Camponotus (Myrmacrhaphe) species T²
{Campontus (Myrmacrhaphe) sp T2}

Camponotus (Myrmacrhaphe) species T²

return to key Major worker - TL 6.97 mm, HL 1.65, HW 1.65, SL 1.01, PW 1.06
Minor worker - TL 4.39 mm, HL 1.09, HW 0.87, SL 1.21, PW 0.78

Colour black, red-brown extremities, shiny. Sculpturation of fine striations, most marked on the alitrunk. Coarse erect, long, colourless hairs sparse. Very sparse pilosity. Alitrunk arched, giving a humpbacked appearance. Declivity of propodeum with an obtuse angle near the bottom. Petiole a low node, near rectangular in lateral view.

In Nigeria it was moderately common on low shrubbery at CRIN, less frequently on cocoa, where it tends scale insects and aphids. Also forages on the soil and native trees, cashew and kola.

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