Crematogaster libengensis

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

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Crematogaster libengensis Stitz, 1916 valid

Crematogaster libengensis Stitz, 1916: 389, fig. 7 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Ubangi Dist., Libenge, 25.x.1910 (Schubotz). Type-depository: Zoological Museum Hamburg (Stitz, 1916: 371). Type notes: Hamburg zoological museum was destroyed in World War II; but holotype may perhaps be in MNHU or ZMUH.

Combination in Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema): Wheeler, 1922: 847; Santschi, 1926b: 227
Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 153; Wheeler, 1922: 847; Santschi, 1926b: 227; Menozzi, 1942a: 169; Bernard, 1953b: 233; Bolton, 1995b: 156.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. l. rufula Santschi, 1926

Citations

Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. 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. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. 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
Stitz, H. 1916. Formiciden. Ergebnisse der Zweiten Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1:369-405.
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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