The photograph below shows the environment and morphology of the probable base-species Capadotus pacitus [sic] (Genera Calomyrmex, Camponotites/ Camponotus):

Capadotus pachitus (sic) photographed in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. [digital capture from Them, 1954 © Warner Home Video. Inc

Now let us consider this probable base-species in contrast with its final, aberrant form using D;Arcy Wentworth Thompson's grid-coordinate transform:

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Fig. 4 Subfamily: Formicinae Genera: Camponatus Sub-Genera: Colobopsis*

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Fig. 5 Embedded Classifiction: Capodotus pachitas (sic)

NOTE * Tribe Camponotini (- Polythracidini). Genera: Calomyrmex, Camponotites, Camponotus [sub-genera: nominal plus Colopsis (- Campylomyrma = Cpmdylomyrma), Dinomyrmex (- Myrmogigas). Hypercolobopsis (- Neocolobopsis, Karavaievia, Manniella, Mayria, Myrmacrhaphe, Myrmamblys, Myrmaphaenus (-Neomyrmamblys, = Paracoiobopsis), Myrmentoma, Myrmepinotus, Myrmepomis (- Myrmolophus), Myrmespera, Myrmeurynota, Myrmisolepsis, Myrmobrachys, Myrmocladoecus, Myrmodirachis, Myrmogonia, Myrmomalis, Myrmonesites, Myrmopalapella, Myrmopelta, Myrmophyma (- Myrmocamelus), Myrmopiromus, Myrmoplatyus, Myrmoplatys, Myrmopsamma, Myrpytia, Myrmosaga, Myrmosaultus, Myrmosericus, Myrmosphincata, Myrmostenus, Myrmotarsus, Myrmotemnus, Myrmothrix, Myrmotrema, Myrmoxygenys, Orthotomyrmex, (- Orthonus), Paramyrmamblis, Pseudocolobopsis, Rhinomyrmex, Tanaemyrmex, (- Myrmoturba), Thlipsepinotus], etc. [Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World, B. Bolton, Harvard]

View TABLE 1 -- 'TAXA - AGENCY'

View TABLE 2 -- 'TAXA = MUTATION'

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