Crematogaster menilekii

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

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Crematogaster menilekii Forel, 1894 valid

Crematogaster menilekii Forel, 1894b: 97 (w.) ETHIOPIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Ethiopia (“Südabessinien”): (no further data) (Ilg). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0908538.

[Misspelled as meneliki by Forel, 1913i: 353; Santschi, 1914b: 93, and others.]
Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Wheeler, 1922: 840.
Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922c: 147.
Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166; Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
Subspecies of Crematogaster buchneri: Forel, 1916: 411 (in text).
Status as species: Emery, 1899a: 500; Mayr, 1902: 293; Santschi, 1913a: 412 (in key); Santschi, 1919h: 87; Emery, 1922c: 147; Wheeler, 1922: 154, 840; Bernard, 1953b: 235; Bolton, 1995b: 157.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. m. completa Santschi, 1928
C. m. occidentalis Mayr, 1902
C. m. proserpina Santschi, 1919
C. m. satan Forel, 1916
C. m. spuria Forel, 1913
C. m. suddensis Weber, 1943
C. m. viehmeyeri Santschi, 1921

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. 1899a. Formiche dell'ultima spedizione Bottego. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 39[=(2)19]:499-501. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Forel, A. 1894b. Abessinische und andere afrikanische Ameisen, gesammelt von Herrn Ingenieur Alfred Ilg, von Herrn Dr. Liengme, von Herrn Pfarrer Missionar P. Berthoud, Herrn Dr. Arth. Müller etc. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 9:64-100. PDF
Forel, A. 1913i. Quelques fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:347-359. PDF
Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
Mayr, G. 1902. Hymenopterologische Miscellen. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 52:287-303. PDF
Santschi, F. 1913a ("1912"). Cremastogaster du groupe tricolor-Menileki (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1912:411-414. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
Santschi, F. 1919h. Nouvelles fourmis du Congo Belge du Musée du Congo Belge, à Tervueren. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 7:79-91. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 7 valid subspecies (1 obsolete combination)

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