Crematogaster diffusa
(Jerdon, 1851)
valid
Myrmica diffusa
Jerdon, 1851:
113 (w.q.m.)
INDIA.
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Type-locality: India: (no further data), “found throughout India” (T.C. Jerdon). Type-depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
- [Duplicated in Jerdon, 1854a: 54.]
- Combination in Crematogaster: Roger, 1863b: 37.
- Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922c: 150.
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166; Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
- Unidentifiable taxon: Forel, 1903a: 682.
- Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 37; Mayr, 1863a: 432; Dalla Torre, 1893: 81; Bingham, 1903: 136; Emery, 1922c: 150; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 89; Bolton, 1995b: 152; Tiwari, 1999: 46; Bharti et al., 2016: 36.
- [Note: Bingham, 1903: 136, suggests that Crematogaster diffusa may be a senior synonym of Crematogaster aberrans.]
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
- Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. 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.
- Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
- Forel, A. 1903a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:679-715. PDF
- Jerdon, T. C. 1851. A catalogue of the species of ants found in Southern India. Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17:103-127. PDF
- Jerdon, T. C. 1854a. A catalogue of the species of ants found in Southern India. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2)13:45-56. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
- Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
- Tiwari, R. N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4):1-96. PDF