Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, “Aru” (
A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository:
OXUM.
Type notes:
1)
Donisthorpe, 1932c: 456, cites 2 workers in
OXUM; he points out that the two specimens present on the single card represented two separate species. 2) The holotype of
Crematogaster elegans is the specimen on the left, the holotype of
Crematogaster mimicans Donisthorpe, 1932c is the specimen on the right.