The Ants of Africa
Genus Camponotus subgenus Myrmosericus
Camponotus (Myrmosericus) zimmermanni Forel
{Camponotus zimmermanni minor}

Camponotus (Myrmosericus) zimmermanni Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ethiopia (Forel, 1894b: 66, worker); subspecies pansus (Santschi, 1926c: 613, worker); worker only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1894b) description of the worker is at {original description}. Santschi's (1926c) description of pansus is at {original description}.

The photomontage is of what appears to be a worker of zimmermanni from Rwanda, collector Gabriel Bizimungu, from a coffee plantation, at Bicumbi, 2005. Note the wider head than the Camponotus rufoglaucus ? syphax minor, also darker red-brown colouration. The head also has fine psammophore type hairs on the underside.

Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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