Crematogaster elegans
Smith, 1859
valid
Crematogaster elegans
Smith, 1859a:
149 (w.)
INDONESIA (Aru Is).
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, “Aru” (A.R. Wallace). Type-depository: OXUM.
Type notes:
The holotype of Crematogaster elegans (specimen on the left) is mounted on the same card as the holotype of Crematogaster mimicans (specimen on the right).
- Combination in Crematogaster (Xiphocrema): Emery, 1922c: 139; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 456
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 404; Roger, 1863b: 37; Dalla Torre, 1893: 81; Emery, 1922c: 139; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 456; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 103; Bolton, 1995b: 152.
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.
- 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
- Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. 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
- Smith, F. 1859a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3:132-158. PDF