Crematogaster mutans
Buren, 1968
valid
Crematogaster (Crematogaster) mutans
Buren, 1968b:
115 (w.q.)
U.S.A. (California).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: California, Morena Lake, 3.viii.1957 (W.F. Buren). Primary type depository: LACM. Primary type specimen: LACMENT164534.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens (number not stated). Secondary type localities: paratypes with same data as holotype, paratypes California, S Julian on route 73, 14.ix.1959 (W.F. Buren), paratypes California, San Diego County, Desert View Park, 23.iv.1952 (W.S. Creighton), 2 paratype queens California, 3 mi. NE Tehachapi, 11.viii.1935 (G.D. Hanna), paratypes Nevada, between Reno and Carson City, 9.viii. 1957 (W.F. Buren). Secondary type depositories: CASC, LACM, MCZC, USNM.
Type notes:
Holotype depository LACM, not USNM (Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 930).
- Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 268 (m.)
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
- Status as species: Smith, 1979: 1380; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 158; Ward, 2005: 65; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 264 (redescription); Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
Citations
- 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.
- Buren, W. F. 1968b. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Part II. Descriptions of new species. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 3:91-121. PDF
- 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.
- Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. 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, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF