Crematogaster hespera
Buren, 1968
valid
Crematogaster (Crematogaster) hespera
Buren, 1968b:
98 (w.q.)
U.S.A. (Arizona).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Arizona, Phoenix, 20.vii.1918 (A.W. Morrill). Primary type depository: USNM. Primary type specimen: USNMENT00529501.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 21 paratype workers, 3 queens. Secondary type localities: 11 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 10 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens Arizona, Phoenix, 25.xii.1895 (no collector’s name), also “numerous specimens from these localities” (numbers/sexes/castes not stated): California, Big Dalton Canyon, Glendora (A. Mallis & J. Schwartz), California, Col. Desert (A.L. Pickens), California, Glenville (A. Wetmore), California, Pacific Grove (W.M. Mann), California, Sacramento (P.H. Arnaud), California, San Diego County, Santa Ysabel and Mt Laguna (W.S. Creighton), Arizona, Sacaton (F.S. Strickney), Arizona, Nogales, Ruby, and Patagonia (L.F. Byars), Arizona, Nogales and Patagonia (W.F. Buren), Arizona, Fort Huachuca, Wickenberg, and Patagonia (W.S. Creighton), Arizona, Tempe (W.M. Wheeler), New Mexico, Las Cruces (A.C. Cole), Texas, Ysleta and El Paso (W.F. Buren), Mexico: Sonora, Imuris (W.S. Creighton). Secondary type depositories: CASC, LACM, MCZC, USNM.
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
- Junior synonym of Crematogaster laeviuscula: Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 197
- Status as species: Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1379; Snelling & George, 1979: 124; Allred, 1982: 461; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 48; Bolton, 1995b: 154; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 91; Ward, 2005: 65; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 917.
Citations
- Allred, D. M. 1982. Ants of Utah. Great Basin Naturalist 42:415-511.
- 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
- 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
- Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
- Morgan, C. E.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. The North America acrobat ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster. Balti, Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 532 pp. PDF
- Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
- 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.
- Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
- 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. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF