Crematogaster constructor
Emery, 1895
valid
Crematogaster constructor
Emery, 1895i:
29, pl. 2, figs. 12, 13 (w.)
Date of publication 16.viii.1895.
SOUTH AFRICA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: South Africa: Transvaal, Hamman’s Kraal, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon). Type-depository: MSNG.
- [Also described as new by Emery, 1895o: 135 (in key and footnote) (date of publication (31.xii).1895).]
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Wheeler, 1922: 836.
- Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922c: 146.
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166; Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
- Status as species: Arnold, 1920a: 535; Emery, 1922c: 146; Wheeler, 1922: 836; Arnold, 1947: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 151.
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
- C. c. kirbyella Emery, 1922
Citations
- Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
- Arnold, G. 1947. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 7. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:131-167. PDF
- 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.
- Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
- Emery, C. 1895o. [Untitled. Crematogaster constructor n. sp.]. Pp. 135-136 in: Mayr, G. 1895. Afrikanische Formiciden. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 10:124-154. PDF
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
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