Camponotus lateralis purius Santschi 1929 [New

Synonym]

Investigated were two worker syntypes from Algeria, stored in NHM Basel, mounted on the same pin and labeled ‘ Camponotus lateralis Ol. / v. purius Sant / SANTSCI det. 1928’, ‘ Alger Bequaert’, ‘Type’, ‘CASENT 09111698 ’ [major worker], ‘ANTWEB CASENT 0911699’ [minor worker]. Considering all characters and running the syntypes as wild-cards in a 4-class LDA considering the four species presented in Tab. 2, they are allocated to the C. lateralis cluster with posterior probabilities of 0.9998 and 0.9974. A wild-card run of the syntypes within the C. lateralis cluster, allocated the major to morph 1 with p=0.998 but the minor to morph 2 with p = 0.986.