Crematogaster californica
Wheeler, 1919
valid
Crematogaster laeviuscula var. californica
Wheeler, 1919h:
111 (w.)
U.S.A. (California).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 909). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: California, Los Angeles (no collector’s name) (by restriction of Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 909). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0923319 (lectotype).
Type notes:
1) Original description cites 2 syntype workers. 2) Other original syntype locality: U.S.A.: California, Encinitas (no collector’s name). Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 911, report that this specimen is not in MHNG or MSNG.
- Lectotype designation: Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 909.
- [First available use of Crematogaster lineolata laeviuscula californica ; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Buren, 1968b: 94; Blaimer, 2012c: 55; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 901.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1910a: 564; Emery, 1922c: 141; Essig, 1926: 859.
- Subspecies of Crematogaster lineolata: Wheeler, 1934f: 135; Wheeler, 1935g: 22.
- Subspecies of Crematogaster laeviuscula: Enzmann, 1946c: 93.
- Junior synonym of Crematogaster coarctata: Creighton, 1950a: 207; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 105.
- Status as species: Smith, 1951c: 808; Smith, 1958c: 125; Buren, 1968b: 94 (in key); Smith, 1979: 1377; Snelling & George, 1979: 121; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 47; Bolton, 1995b: 149; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 86; Ward, 2005: 65; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 909.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Blaimer, B. B. 2012c. A subgeneric revision of Crematogaster and discussion of regional species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3482:47-67. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Buren, W. F. 1968b. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Part II. Descriptions of new species. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 3:91-121. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
- Enzmann, J. 1946c. Crematogaster lineolata cerasi, the cherry ant of Asa Fitsch; (with a survey of the American forms of Crematogaster, subgenus Acrocoelia). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 54:89-97. PDF
- Essig, E. O. 1926. Insects of western North America. New York: Macmillan, xi + 1035 pp. PDF
- Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
- Morgan, C. E.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. The North America acrobat ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster. Balti, Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 532 pp. PDF
- Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
- Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
- Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
- Snelling, R. R.; George, C. D. 1979. The taxonomy, distribution and ecology of California desert ants. Report to California Desert Plan Program, Bureau of Land Management. Riverside: U.S. Dept. Interior, 335 + 89 pp.
- Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
- Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B. 2022. Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194:893-937. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1919h. A new paper-making Crematogaster from the southeastern United States. Psyche (Cambridge) 26:107-112. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1934f. Ants from the islands off the west coast of Lower California and Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 10:132-144. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.