Crematogaster depilis
Wheeler, 1919
valid
Crematogaster opaca var. depilis
Wheeler, 1919h:
111 (w.)
MEXICO (Chihuahua).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 160). Primary type locality: lectotype Mexico: Chihuahua, Cerro Carrigal (C.H.T. Townsend) (by restriction of Creighton, 1950a: 209). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: MCZENT00303629.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 10+ paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: 10 paralectotypes with same data as holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.
Type notes:
Other syntype (paralectotype) localities: U.S.A.: Texas, Del Rio (W.M. Wheeler), New Mexico, Alamogordo (Viereck), Mexico: Chihuahua, Cerro Chilicote (C.H.T. Townsend).
- [First available use of Crematogaster lineolata opaca depilis ; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- [Misspelled as debilis by Essig, 1926: 859.]
- Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973a: 28 (l.)
- Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922c: 141.
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Buren, 1968b: 93; Blaimer, 2012c: 55; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1910a: 564; Emery, 1922c: 141; Essig, 1926: 859.
- Subspecies of Crematogaster punctulata: Enzmann, 1946c: 93
- Subspecies of Crematogaster opaca: Dennis, 1938: 284; Smith, 1951c: 810.
- Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 209; Buren, in Smith, 1958c: 126; Cole, 1966b: 16; Beck et al., 1967: 68; Buren, 1968b: 93 (in key); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1378; Snelling & George, 1979: 122; Allred, 1982: 460; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 48; Bolton, 1995b: 151; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 89; Ward, 2005: 65; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 155 (redescription); Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 914.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
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- Beck, D. E.; Allred, D. M.; Despain, W. J. 1967. Predaceous-scavenger ants in Utah. Great Basin Naturalist 27:67-78.
- 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
- Cole, A. C., Jr. 1966b. Ants of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin. Biological Series 7(3):1-27. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- Dennis, C. A. 1938. The distribution of ant species in Tennessee with reference to ecological factors. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 31:267-308. 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
- Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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. 1973a. The ant larvae of six tribes: second supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 8:27-39. 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