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Dumpert — Camponotus from Malaysia 
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than those of workers, but smaller than those of C. texens females; 
maximum diameter 0.54 mm, which is about 0.24 HW. Petiolar 
profile with broad base, which tapers to a transverse ridge and into a 
point, as seen from above. 
Paratype TL 11.4, HL 2.21-2.23, HW 2.24-2.29, Cl 103-104, 
SL 2. 3-2.4, SI 94-98, PW 1.92-1.99, OD 0.58-0.62, OD/HW 
0.24-0.25 (4 measured). 
Gynetype, Western Malaysia: Gombak Valley, ca. 25 km north of 
Kuala Lumpur, 15.2.1984 (Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel). 
Paratypes: 4 99 with same data as gynetype (collection of the 
author). 
Camponotus overbecki Viehmeyer stat. n. 
Camponotus dolichoderoides var. overbecki Viehmeyer 1915: 162. 
Material examined: 1 syntype worker from the Santschi Collec- 
tion (Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel) leg. Overbeck: Singapore. 
TL 5.8, HL 1.43, HW 1.56, Cl 109, SL 1.61, SI 97, PW 0.88, OD 
0.39. 
Frontal carinae extend to about midlength of the sides of the 
head; as in C. texens, they are slightly divergent and — apart from a 
lateral projection behind the scapal insertion — straight. Anterior 
clypeal margin almost straight, but slightly concave in the middle 
third. Eyes are situated behind the midlength of the sides of the 
head; maximum diameter 0.39, which is about 0.39 HW. 
Head and alitrunk reddish brown, gaster blackish brown with 
lighter anterior segment boundaries. Petiole, legs, tarsi, and apical 
antennal flagellum yellow. Head, alitrunk and gaster shining, less 
punctured than in C. texens and in particular in C. gombaki. Whole 
body covered with fine, yellowish white, decumbent pubescence; 
longer erect denser than in C. texens and in particular in C. gom- 
baki. Propodeum in profile broadly rounded and slightly higher 
than promesonotal dorsum. Dorsal part of propodum weakly con- 
vex, descending part slightly flatter. In the lower fourth, the decliv- 
ity is slightly concave. 
On the whole, the differences between C. gombaki and C. texens 
are not exceeding those between C. overbecki and C. dolichode- 
roides. As C. texens and C. gombaki certainly belong to different 
species because of the differences in their behavior (Maschwitz et 
