Crematogaster hottentota

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Crematogaster hottentota Emery, 1899 valid

Crematogaster kneri subsp. hottentota Emery, 1899d: 482 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA, BOTSWANA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: South Africa: Vrijburg, 1893 (E. Simon) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 847; no lectotype designated), South Africa, Bloemfontein, 1893 (E. Simon), Botswana (“Bechuanaland”): (no further data) (E. Simon). Primary type depository: MSNG (possibly also MRHN). Primary type specimen: CASENT0904480. Type notes: This taxon is based on Crematogaster kneri Mayr, 1862, sensu Emery, 1895i: 27, misidentification.

[Misspelled as kottentota by Menozzi, 1942a: 169.]
Combination in Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema): Wheeler, 1922: 847
Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
Subspecies of Crematogaster kneri: Forel, 1913a: 125; Arnold, 1920a: 528; Wheeler, 1922: 847; Emery, 1922c: 153.
Status as species: Santschi, 1926b: 224; Menozzi, 1942a: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 154.

Obsolete combinations

Crematogaster kneri hottentota

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. h. bassuto Santschi, 1925

Citations

Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. 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.
Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
Emery, C. 1899d. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43:459-504. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Forel, A. 1913a. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:108-147. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1942a. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zoologischer Anzeiger 140:164-182. PDF
Santschi, F. 1926b. Description de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens (IIIme partie). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 13:207-267. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 1 valid subspecies

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