Crematogaster minutissima
Mayr, 1870
valid
Crematogaster minutissima
Mayr, 1870b:
995 (w.q.)
U.S.A. (Texas).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Type-locality: U.S.A.: Texas, “im Stockholmer Museum”, (no collector’s name). Type-depository: NHMW (worker; queen perhaps in NHRS).
Type notes:
Longino, 2003a: 84, cites worker syntype label as “Texas, Belfrage, Stock”.
- Wheeler, 1908h: 484 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1960b: 14 (l.)
- Combination in Crematogaster (Orthocrema): Emery, 1922c: 135; Blaimer, 2012c: 55; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1886d: 464; Cresson, 1887: 262; Dalla Torre, 1893: 83; Emery, 1895d: 287; Wheeler, 1908h: 484; Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Wheeler, 1919h: 111; Emery, 1922c: 135; Smith, 1928c: 277; Smith, 1930a: 4; Wheeler, 1932a: 9; Creighton, 1939b: 140 (in key); Creighton, 1950a: 205; Smith, 1951c: 808; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Beck et al., 1967: 69; Smith, 1967a: 356; Smith, 1979: 1379; Allred, 1982: 461; Deyrup et al., 1989: 96; Bolton, 1995b: 157; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 95; Deyrup, 2003: 44; Longino, 2003a: 84 (redescription); MacGown & Forster, 2005: 72; Deyrup, 2017: 63; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 238 (redescription); Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
Citations
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- Beck, D. E.; Allred, D. M.; Despain, W. J. 1967. Predaceous-scavenger ants in Utah. Great Basin Naturalist 27:67-78.
- 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.
- Carter, W. G. 1962a. Ants of the North Carolina Piedmont. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 78:1-18. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1939b. A new subspecies of Crematogaster minutissima with revisionary notes concerning that species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 46:137-140. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- Cresson, E. T. Sr. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico, together with a catalogue of the described species, and bibliography. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Suppl. Vol. 1887:1-351. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Deyrup, M. 2003. An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 86:43-48. PDF
- Deyrup, M. 2017. Ants of Florida. Identification and natural history. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis group), 423 pp.
- Deyrup, M.; Johnson, C.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989. A preliminary list of the ants of Florida. Florida Entomologist 72:91-101. PDF
- Emery, C. 1895d. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna. (Schluss). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:257-360. PDF
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
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- Smith, M. R. 1928c. An additional annotated list of the ants of Mississippi. With a description of a new species of Aphaenogaster (Hym.: Formicidae) (continued from page 246). Entomological News 39:275-279. PDF
- Smith, M. R. 1930a. A list of Florida ants. Florida Entomologist 14:1-6. PDF
- 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
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- 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. 1960b. Supplementary studies on the larvae of the Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 62:1-32. PDF
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- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1919h. A new paper-making Crematogaster from the southeastern United States. Psyche (Cambridge) 26:107-112. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1932a. A list of the ants of Florida with descriptions of new forms. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 40:1-17. PDF