Crematogaster kennedyi

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

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Crematogaster kennedyi Wheeler, 1930 junior synonym of current valid taxon Crematogaster cerasi (Fitch, 1855)

Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) kennedyi Wheeler, 1930g: 58 (q.m.) U.S.A. (Indiana). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 14 syntype queens, 6 syntype males. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Indiana, Fort Wayne, Robinson Park, 22.ix.1929 (C.H. Kennedy). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC. Type notes: Type material also in collection of C.H. Kennedy: whereabouts unknown.

Status as species: Enzmann, 1946c: 93; Creighton, 1950a: 209; Smith, 1951c: 809; Kutter, 1968c: 203 (error).
Junior synonym of Crematogaster cerasi: Buren, in Smith, 1958c: 126; Smith, 1979: 1378; Bolton, 1995b: 155; Coovert, 2005: 60; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 91; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 912.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Coovert, G. A. 2005. The ants of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (New Series) 15 (2):1-196. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Enzmann, J. 1946c. Crematogaster lineolata cerasi, the cherry ant of Asa Fitsch; (with a survey of the American forms of Crematogaster, subgenus Acrocoelia). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 54:89-97. PDF
Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
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.
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. 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, W. M. 1930g. A new parasitic Crematogaster from Indiana. Psyche (Cambridge) 37:55-60. PDF

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