The Ants of Africa
Genus Camponotus subgenus Tanaemyrmex
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) bianconii Emery

Unassignable to a species group

Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) bianconii Emery

return to key Type locality South Africa (Emery, 1895h: 52, soldier, holotype only); soldier only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1895h) description is at {original description}. Arnold's (1922: 652) translation is at {original description}. The description makes comparison with Camponotus bertolonii, also described by Emery (19895h) but that is placed in the subgenus Paramyrmablys. I suspect the status of bianconii is quite dubious.

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