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

pompeius--group
Major clypeus with distinct median carina; large TL 15 mm plus; alitrunk profile convex with angular propodeum, petiole scale quite thick; trimorphic (?) minors with distinct posteriorly narrowed heads; soldiers dark red-brown to near black; minors lighter brown-orange to yellow-red. Most catalogued under Camponotus (Dinomyrmex) by Wheeler (1922: 962).

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Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) caffer Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type locality South Africa (Emery, 1895h: 47, illustrated, soldier & worker); soldier and worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1895h) description is at {original description}. Arnold's (1922: 652) translation is at {original description}.

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