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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Rasoamanana N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5523882 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ZooKeys 20170621 681
The ant genus <i>Camponotus</i> (Mayr, 1861) is one of the most abundant and species rich ant genera in the Malagasy zoogeographical region. Although this group is commonly encountered, its taxonomy is far from complete. Here, we clarify the taxonomy of the Malagasy-endemic Camponotus subgenus Myrmopytia (Emery, 1920). Species delimitation was based on traditional morphological characters and multivariate morphometric analyses, including exploratory Nest Centroid clustering and confirmatory cros ...[more]